Associate Professor, Wageningen University
Ingrid Boas is an associate professor at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University. Ingrid does research in the fields of environmental change, mobilities, and governance, with a focus on the topic of environmental/climate change-related human mobility. Her PhD (University of Kent, 2014) examined the securitization of climate migration, funded by the UK Economic Social Research Council. In 2016, she was awarded a personal grant with the Netherlands Scientific Organization to study environmental migration in the context of the digital age. Ingrid’s work has appeared in journals such as Global Environmental Politics, Environmental Politics, Geoforum, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Nature Climate Change, and in the monograph (Routledge, 2015) on Climate migration and security: Securitization as a strategy in climate change politics.
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Oct 09, 2020 07:54 am UTC| Nature
Predictions of mass climate migration make for attention-grabbing headlines. For more than two decades, commentators have predicted waves and rising tides of people forced to move by climate change. Recently, a think-tank...
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