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Venice Summer Institute 2016
Venice Summer Institute
22 – 23 July 2016
Call for Papers
CESifo Workshop on
CLIMATE CHANGE AND MIGRATION
Organisers: Michael Berlemann & Max Steinhardt
to be held on
22 – 23 July 2016 on the island of San Servolo in the Bay of Venice, Italy
Workshop description
Climate change is one of the most challenging problems of our time. One likely consequence of
climate change is environmentally induced migration. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) noted in 1990, the greatest single impact of climate change might be on human
migration – with millions of people displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural
disruption.
Climate refugees are forced to leave their home regions due to changes in their local environment.
On the one hand, migration may be the result of sudden and somewhat unexpected changes in living
conditions. Climate-related natural disasters such as droughts, storms or floods might induce parts of
the population to permanently move out of the affected or disaster-prone regions. On the other hand,
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migration may be a consequence of the observed or expected long-term consequences of climate
change, such as changes in temperature or precipitation levels.
Recent empirical studies on the effects of climate change, and especially of climate-induced natural
disasters, have detected significantly negative effects on economic growth. Interestingly enough, little
knowledge is yet available on the channels through which climate change and climate-induced
natural disasters affect long-term growth. One possible channel through which climate change might
affect growth patterns is migration, as movement of people has a direct influence on both population
growth and human capital. Studying the effect of climate change and climate-induced disasters on
migration flows might thus contribute to a much better understanding of the effects of climate change
on economic growth.
While outmigration as a consequence of climate change might have severe negative effects on the
source country economies due to the loss of workers and human capital (brain drain), the impact of
immigration is not necessarily positive. Instead, it depends crucially on the labour market integration
of immigrants in the host countries. Unexpectedly large migration flows, as they occur as a
consequence of conflict, can overburden the destination countries. Similarly, unexpectedly high
emigration flows triggered by climate change or certain natural disasters might lead to severe
economic and social disruptions in the receiving countries.
The workshop intends to bring together researchers from the fields of migration and climate/disaster
research. The submission of both theoretical and empirical papers is welcome. Preference will be
given to papers studying the link between climate change/natural disasters and migration.
Keynote speakers
Michel Beine, University of Luxembourg
Ilan Noy, Victoria University Wellington
Organisers
Michael Berlemann, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg
Max Steinhardt, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg
[email protected]
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Submission & Publication
For submissions, please visit www.cesifo.org/venice.
Only online submissions will be accepted. Should you have any (technical) difficulties with the online
submission procedure, please contact [email protected] for assistance.
The deadline for submissions is December 22, 2015. Authors of papers that are accepted for
presentation at the workshop will be notified by mid-February 2016.
A selection of the conference papers will be published in a special issue of the journal CESifo
Economic Studies. It is understood that all submissions to the workshop imply submission to the
publication outlet. The papers presented at the workshop can be revised after the workshop to
include comments. This revised version will then be submitted to CESifo Economic Studies. Final
publication decisions are based on a standard refereeing process.
CESifo will provide accommodation, and will reimburse economy travel costs, for all participants with
accepted papers. All CESifo Research Network members are invited to participate, but are expected to
provide their own funding for travel and accommodation.
For more information please consult www.cesifo.org/venice