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RESEARCH + ENGAGEMENT + IMPACT

Program on Climate, Resilience and Mobility

Duke University’s Program on Climate, Resilience and Mobility (PCRM) serves as a cross-disciplinary platform that brings together researchers, practitioners and policymakers to look more deeply into the interconnected nature of climate change and global mobility. With ongoing research projects around the world, we strive to include findings from both the social and natural sciences.

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OUR MISSION

PCRM pillars are rigorous research, public engagement, student initiatives, and policy impact.

The goal of the Duke Program on Climate, Resilience and Mobility (PCRM) is to contribute to a global response to the intersection of climate change and migration that improves the ability of people to adapt in place where possible, increases the opportunities to move with dignity when necessary, and enhances the resilience of destination communities to promote better lives and livelihoods for established populations and migrant arrivals. We do this by fostering rigorous, transdisciplinary research that advances knowledge and can enhance policy, promote student learning, and inform the public on multiple facets of the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and human mobility.

PCRM pillars are rigorous research, public engagement, student initiatives, and policy impact.

OUR MISSION

The goal of the Duke Program on Climate, Resilience and Mobility (PCRM) is to contribute to a global response to the intersection of climate change and migration that improves the ability of people to adapt in place where possible, increases the opportunities to move with dignity when necessary, and enhances the resilience of destination communities to promote better lives and livelihoods for established populations and migrant arrivals. We do this by fostering rigorous, transdisciplinary research that advances knowledge and can enhance policy, promote student learning, and inform the public on multiple facets of the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and human mobility.

PROGRAM DIRECTORS

Sarah Bermeo is an associate professor of public policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy. Her research lies at the intersection of international relations and development, with a particular focus on relations between industrialized and developing countries.

Kerilyn Schewel is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Senior Fellow at the Duke Center for International Development. 

 

Program Directors Kerilyn Schewel and Sarah Bermeo.

PCRM co-directors Kerilyn Schewel (left) and Sarah Bermeo (right).

FUNDING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The PCRM is supported through the generosity of Duke University’s Office of the Provost and Office for Global Affairs.

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