Collateral Consequences Series: Responding to and Preparing for Climate-Related Migration

Join us this fall for a seven-part virtual speaker series featuring one-hour discussions at the intersection of democracy and climate change. This series will feature an interdisciplinary array of perspectives, exploring how climate-related natural disasters, extreme weather, and migration patterns can and do affect how we think about democratic representation, elections, and democratic governance in the United States. We hope to inspire proactive intervention that will protect our democratic structures and maintain, if not improve, democratic representation. 

October 24, 2025 @ 12:00pm ET (zoom) 

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For the third session of the Collateral Consequences Series, join us for a discussion of climate-related migration featuring Dr. Debra Butler, Executive Director of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals and researcher who has studied climate displacement and migration and climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation, and Prof. Mathew Hauer, Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida State University and applied demographer who studies and writes about climate-induced vulnerabilities and population changes. This panel will discuss what has already been observed about how climate change is impacting where and how people are distributed across different localities and geographies and what impacts we can expect to see in the future, particularly in the United States, due to climate-related migration.