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Robert McLeman

@rmcleman

Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.

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Understanding the migratory response to hurricanes and tropical storms in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour Population-weighted exposure to tropical storms and hurricanes increased in the USA between 1992 and 2017. The attractions of high-risk areas currently outweigh incentives to reduce exposure to future storms through migration.
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Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman, "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network

It was so fun to talk about our book "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" with Hannah! You can listen to the conversation here. @universitypress.cambridge.org @rmcleman.bsky.social @kayly.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/migration-an...

08.07.2025 15:08 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | β€˜We Are the Most Rejected Generation’

One of the more thoughtful and important commentaries I’ve read about what it’s like to be a young adult today, by NYTimes David Brooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/o...

16.05.2025 08:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My pleasure. If you’re interested in having a copy, DM me a mailing address and I’ll send you one. Academic texts aren’t the most gripping reads, so I won’t be offended if you pass. Cheers!

10.05.2025 23:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Listening to @barryglendenning.bsky.social & Guardian Football Weekly Monday mornings = best way to start week. Enjoy so much I included Barry in acknowledgments in my new coauthored book published by Cambridge U Press. Thanks Barry!

10.05.2025 01:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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First trillium in bloom this spring in my local woods, so far as I could observe. Waterloo County.

30.04.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NHL Green essay: Outdoor rinks at risk despite cold winter of 2024-25 | NHL.com Wilfrid Laurier University’s McLeman discusses importance, challenges of playing outside

New #NHLgreen article by RinkWatch’s @rmcleman about how this past winter ODR season compared with previous winters, with great photos from #rinkwatch participants & others. www.nhl.com/news/topic/n...

28.04.2025 16:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rainfall deviation in state (Left) and municipality (Right) equals average daily rainfall in 2005 minus average rainfall in baseline period (1980 to 1990), divided by SD in rainfall in that period. Red hues indicate that a state was drier in 2005 relative to 1980 to 1990; blue hues show that it was wetter.

Rainfall deviation in state (Left) and municipality (Right) equals average daily rainfall in 2005 minus average rainfall in baseline period (1980 to 1990), divided by SD in rainfall in that period. Red hues indicate that a state was drier in 2005 relative to 1980 to 1990; blue hues show that it was wetter.

Undocumented migration isn’t driven by economics aloneβ€”weather matters too. New research finds that drought in rain-fed farming areas increases migration, while extreme rainfall makes migrants less likely to return.
In @TIMES: time.com/7272152/clim...
In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

18.04.2025 15:13 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.

The @nytopinion.nytimes.com today features a #dataviz of our new global migration flow estimates.
nytimes.com/interactive/...

Using privacy protected records from three billion Facebook users, we estimated country-to-country #migration flows at monthly granularity for 181 countries.

17.04.2025 11:20 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
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Canada Reschedules Political Debate That Conflicted With a Hockey Game (Gift Article) A big game, but still.

Is there anything more Canadian than this? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

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View of Coming to Terms with Deep Uncertainty in the Study of Climate-Related Displacement | Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

I’ve studied & written about #climatechange +migration for 20+ years, time to step aside. In what’s likely my final journal article on the topic, I summarize what researchers know & don’t know about climate & displacement. It’s open access. epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/ind...

14.04.2025 00:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Canada will no longer cover travel costs of experts it nominates to UN's climate science body | CBC News In a sudden and unexplained change from previous decades, the federal government has stopped covering the travel costs of Canadian experts volunteering for the next major global climate science assess...

Pennywise and pound foolish. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

13.04.2025 02:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Will you be teaching a course on #climatemigration? Pls consider adopting new book by @kelseabest.bsky.social, Kayly Ober & me, β€˜Migration in a changing climate’, pub’s by Cambridge. See image for description & 20% discount code.

11.04.2025 00:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Folks won’t cancel travel to conferences already paid for. It’s the next conf they won’t attend. I canceled on an economics conf in Seattle in May where I was to be a keynote, and didn’t register for any other US confs in 2025. US acad socs aren’t the problem, but they’ll share the pain unfort’ly.

02.04.2025 11:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Updated global #migration flow estimates to match new @UNDESA stock data

πŸ“„Bilateral: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
πŸ“„Bilateral by sex: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

πŸ–₯️Update details: guyabel.com/publication/...

πŸ“”Original @ScientificData papers: nature.com/articles/s41... & www.nature.com/articles/s41...

27.03.2025 03:03 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4
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New book "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" with the brilliant @rmcleman.bsky.social and Kayly Ober out in April and available for preorder! @cambridgeup.bsky.social

15.03.2025 21:10 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Economic inequality is a crucial determinant of observed patterns of environmental migration - Communications Earth & Environment Levels of inequality within a community are important contributors to community-level patterns of migration, according simulations with an agent-based model of the influence of environmental shocks, l...

Delighted to share a new publication, with the amazing @kelseabest.bsky.social & Bishawjit Mallick, using pattern-oriented agent-based modeling to explore the importance of economic inequality in determining patterns of environmentally-driven migration in Bangladesh.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

12.03.2025 17:16 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond…

06.03.2025 12:15 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

β€œIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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Why’d we do it? When I was an IPCC author, I wished I’d had such a resource. We systematically combed through 28 reports & tabulated in Excel every occurrence of discussion of migration, displacement, refugees, etc, analyzed summarized these in report. Also generated this timeline. #climatemigration

06.03.2025 00:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Evolution of climate-related migration and displacement in IPCC reporting Concerns about climate change impacts on migration and displacement have been expressed regularly by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since

Two students & I reviewed every #IPCC report since 1990, identified, summarized how migration/displacement were assessed. Resulting 33p report too massive for a journal article available free, open access here here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

06.03.2025 00:01 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bill McKibben on Climate Activism in the Age of Trump 2.0 Activist Bill McKibben says Americans upset by the Trump administration’s gutting of U.S. climate efforts need to move beyond despair. In an interview with e360, he talks about rethinking the role of ...

Bill McKibben says Americans upset by the gutting of U.S. climate efforts need to move beyond despair.

In an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, he reexamines the role of protest and explains why he sees reason for hope.

03.03.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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Senior Climate Scientist - Union of Concerned Scientists Senior Climate ScientistPermanentClimate & EnergyUnion of Concerned ScientistsRemote Bargaining Unit Position: Yes Our Organization The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is an independent nonpro...

We are hiring for a Senior Climate Scientist at @ucsusa.bsky.social. Join us! apply.workable.com/union-of-con...

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How Canadians Are Directing Their Ire at the U.S. Over Trump’s Tariffs (Gift Article) Canadians are shunning American products and abandoning trips to the United States to protest the economic punishment President Trump has threatened to impose with tariffs.

I’ve cancelled May trip to econ conference in WA where I was to be keynote. I have other colleagues doing similar. Happy to support/collab with US colleagues online, but no grants or personal $ will be spent in US if tariffs in place. #academicchatter www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/w...

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πŸ“’πŸ“’ Only two weeks left to submit your abstract for the ECMN conference in Bonn (8-10 July 2025)! 86 colleagues have already submitted theirs! Here is a FAQ page and the submission form: www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn25/
Hope to see you along the Rhine River in Bonn this summer!!!

24.02.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Have been reading about crazy price of #eggs in USA. In Canada we have supply management system that ensures farms = well managed, not disrupted by bird flu, producers get fair income, consumers pay fair prices. Today’s price for 12 large eggs at my local store = C$3.93/US$2.75

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Can backyard hockey rinks survive climate change in Canada? - The Weather Network RinkWatch draws awareness to the difficulties to outdoor hockey driven by climate change.

@rmcleman.bsky.social, a professor of geography and environmental studies at @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social, warns that #ClimateChange is having a serious effect on this traditional pastime. RInkWatch draws awareness to the difficulties from climate change. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/clim...

23.02.2025 14:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Assistant Professor - Geography & Environmental Studies (1-year Limited Term) Assistant Professor - Geography & Environmental Studies (1-year Limited Term)

My university (Wilfrid Laurier U in Waterloo, Canada) is advertising a 12-month contract teaching position in urban environmental sustainability starting in Sept. Pls share with your networks. careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...

10.02.2025 18:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At Hillmantok, a Digital H.B.C.U., Class Is in Session (Gift Article) A video welcoming students to Leah Barlow’s African American studies course inspired a virtual university of free TikTok lectures from Black academics and experts.

If you’re a college/university prof, consider using TikTok to share your teaching/research. I’ve been doing it for a couple years now, absolutely worth it. Am really excited to see emergence of #hillmantok an HBCU-modelled TikTok learning community. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/s...

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