Lawrence A. Palinkas, PhD, is the Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health and Chair of the Department of Children, Youth and Families at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. A medical anthropologist, Dr. Palinkas is particularly interested in cultural and environmental influences on health behaviors, health disparities, implementation science, and community-based participatory research. He has held positions of leadership in studies that have focused on migration and health, migrant stress and coping, adaptation to extreme environments, and disaster mental health in projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and National Institutes of Health. He has been engaged in developing new types of mixed method designs for mental health services research that target implementation of evidence-based practices and addressing the behavioral and mental health needs of youth, older adults, and communities of color.

“The study is well-sourced in a large secondary literature. … It supports ‘strategies for preventing, managing, and mitigating climate-related population displacement and its effects through the development and maintenance of partnerships involving academics, policy makers, service providers, communities, and climigrants themselves.’” (G.McN, Population and Development Review, Vol. 46 (3), September, 2020)

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Katrina and New Orleans.- Chapter 3. Maria and Puerto Rico.- Chapter 4. The Tubbs Fire and Santa Rosa.- Chapter 5. Fleeing Drought: Africa and the Great Migration to Europe.- Chapter 6.  Fleeing Flooding: Bangladesh and the Asia-Pacific Rim.- Chapter 7.  Fleeing Coastal Erosion: Newtok and Isle de St. Jean.- Chapter 8.  Policy Responses to Climate-related Displacement.- Chapter 9.  Practice Responses to Climate-related Displacement.- Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Future of Climate-related Displacement?

Lawrence A. Palinkas, PhD, is the Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health and Chair of the Department of Children, Youth and Families at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. A medical anthropologist, Dr. Palinkas is particularly interested in cultural and environmental influences on health behaviors, health disparities, implementation science, and community-based participatory research. He has held positions of leadership in studies that have focused on migration and health, migrant stress and coping, adaptation to extreme environments, and disaster mental health in projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and National Institutes of Health. He has been engaged in developing new types of mixed method designs for mental health services research that target implementation of evidence-based practices and addressing the behavioral and mental health needs of youth, older adults, and communities of color.

“The study is well-sourced in a large secondary literature. … It supports ‘strategies for preventing, managing, and mitigating climate-related population displacement and its effects through the development and maintenance of partnerships involving academics, policy makers, service providers, communities, and climigrants themselves.’” (G.McN, Population and Development Review, Vol. 46 (3), September, 2020)

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Katrina and New Orleans.- Chapter 3. Maria and Puerto Rico.- Chapter 4. The Tubbs Fire and Santa Rosa.- Chapter 5. Fleeing Drought: Africa and the Great Migration to Europe.- Chapter 6.  Fleeing Flooding: Bangladesh and the Asia-Pacific Rim.- Chapter 7.  Fleeing Coastal Erosion: Newtok and Isle de St. Jean.- Chapter 8.  Policy Responses to Climate-related Displacement.- Chapter 9.  Practice Responses to Climate-related Displacement.- Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Future of Climate-related Displacement?

Lawrence A. Palinkas, PhD, is the Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health and Chair of the Department of Children, Youth and Families at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. A medical anthropologist, Dr. Palinkas is particularly interested in cultural and environmental influences on health behaviors, health disparities, implementation science, and community-based participatory research. He has held positions of leadership in studies that have focused on migration and health, migrant stress and coping, adaptation to extreme environments, and disaster mental health in projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and National Institutes of Health. He has been engaged in developing new types of mixed method designs for mental health services research that target implementation of evidence-based practices and addressing the behavioral and mental health needs of youth, older adults, and communities of color.

“The study is well-sourced in a large secondary literature. … It supports ‘strategies for preventing, managing, and mitigating climate-related population displacement and its effects through the development and maintenance of partnerships involving academics, policy makers, service providers, communities, and climigrants themselves.’” (G.McN, Population and Development Review, Vol. 46 (3), September, 2020)

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Katrina and New Orleans.- Chapter 3. Maria and Puerto Rico.- Chapter 4. The Tubbs Fire and Santa Rosa.- Chapter 5. Fleeing Drought: Africa and the Great Migration to Europe.- Chapter 6.  Fleeing Flooding: Bangladesh and the Asia-Pacific Rim.- Chapter 7.  Fleeing Coastal Erosion: Newtok and Isle de St. Jean.- Chapter 8.  Policy Responses to Climate-related Displacement.- Chapter 9.  Practice Responses to Climate-related Displacement.- Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Future of Climate-related Displacement?