Prof. Caroline Zickgraf

Deputy Head
University of Liège
Caroline.Zickgraf@uliege.be

Bio:
Dr. Caroline Zickgraf is Deputy Director of the Hugo Observatory: Environment, Migration and Politics and Research Fellow within the Belmont-forum funded MISTY (migration, transformation, sustainability) international research project. Based in the Department of Geography at the University of Liège, she researches the links between human migration and environmental changes, specializing in the issues of immobility in coastal populations and transnational practices between migrants and non-migrants. Her field research has taken her from Morocco to Senegal to Viet Nam to Comoros, and her coastal expertise will be of particular value to CHILDREN. She is a specialist in qualitative methods with a growing knowledge of Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM), a semi-quantitative method, that can be applied to[BEp1] understand the perceptions of climate change. Dr. Zickgraf bring this knowledge to methodological workshops and trainings as well as her experience as Institutional Lead within the EDGE project, and the Working Group Lead for Governance within MISTY. Dr. Zickgraf also contributes this research experience to the science policy interface via numerous fora, including her membership in the Advisory Group to the UNFCCC Task Force on Displacement as well as numerous consulting positions for the World Bank, United Nations Environment Programme, the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the Green European Foundation. She teaches courses on Global Ecopolitics, Environment and Migration, and the Anthropocene at multiple higher education institutions at the Masters level, including the University of Liège, the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) in France, and the Institut des Hautes Études des Communications sociales (IHECS) and the University of[BEp2] Liège in Belgium. Having won an award for faculty excellence at Sciences Po (2016), her skills in teaching on the impacts of climate change on human populations will be a vital asset to CHILDREN’s capacity building activities.


Relevant publication:(see also ORB)

  1. Boas, I., Farbotko, C., Adams, H., Sterly, H., Bush, S., van der Geest, K., Wiegel, H., Ashraf, H., Baldwin, A., Bettini, G., Blondin, S., de Bruijn, M., Durand-Delacre, D., Fröhlich, C., Gioli, G., Guaita, L., Hut, E., Jarawura, F. X., Lamers, M., … Hulme, M. (2019). Climate migration myths. Nature Climate Change, 9(12), 901–903. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0633-3
  2. Gemenne, F., Blocher, J., De Longueville, F., Perrin, N., Vigil Diaz Telenti, S., Zickgraf, C., & Ozer, P. (2015). How climate extremes are affecting the movement of populations in the Asia Pacific region. In S. Price & J. Singer (Eds.), Global Implications of Development, Disasters and Climate Change Responses to Displacement from Asia Pacific (pp. 21–40). Routledge.
  3. Zickgraf, C. (2018). Immobility. In F. Gemenne & R. McLeman (Eds.), Routledge.
  4. Handbook on Enviromental Displacement and Migration (pp. 71–84). Routledge.
  5. Zickgraf, C. (2019). Keeping People in Place: Political Factors of (Im)mobility and Climate Change. Social Sciences, 8(8), 228.https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8080228
  6. Zickgraf, C., Vigil Diaz Telenti, S., De Longueville, F., Ozer, P., & Gemenne, F. (2016). The Impact of Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Changes on Mobility Patterns in West Africa (KNOMAD Series). World Bank Group.
  7. Zickgraf, C. (2018). „The Fish Migrate And So Must We“: The Relationship Between International And Internal Environmental Mobility In A Senegalese Fishing Community. Medzinarodne Vztahy (Journal of International Relations), 16(1), 5–21.