"Using Big Demographic Data to Measure Global Vulnerability to Climate Change"
Abstract: This talk will describe how newly-available large-sample population datasets, in combination with new high-resolution environmental data, create an exciting opportunity for demographers and other social scientists to significantly advance understandings of global vulnerability to climate change, many aspects of which are still poorly described. Specifically, I will show how IPUMS data on migration, health and educational attainment can be linked to gridded climate data and used to measure both overall and contextually-mediated effects of climate on social outcomes, with results that are highly relevant to current debates about climate mitigation and adaptation.
