Etienne Piguet

portrait Prof. Etienne Piguet

Institut de Géographie
Université de Neuchâtel
Espace Tilo-Frey 1
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 32 718 18 12
Phone2: +41 (0) 32 718 18 12
Fax: +41 (0) 32 718 17 01
E-mail: etienne.piguet(at)unine.ch
URL Institution: www.unine.ch/geographie/
Phone: +41 (0) 32 718 18 12
Phone2: +41 (0) 32 718 18 12
Fax: +41 (0) 32 718 17 01
E-mail: etienne.piguet(at)unine.ch
URL Institution: www.unine.ch/geographie/


Programs in which Etienne Piguet holds an official function:
IPCC-AR5-2013Review Editor



Additional functions:
Chair of the Population geography commission of the International Geographic Union


Key Publications of Etienne Piguet (up to ten) :
Piguet, E. 2022. Linking climate change, environmental degradation, and migration: An update after 10?years. WIREs Climate Change 13 (1):e746.

Kaenzig, R., and E. Piguet. 2021. Toward a Typology of Displacements in the Context of Slow-Onset Environmental Degradation. An Analysis of Hazards, Policies, and Mobility Patterns. Sustainability 13 (18):10235.

Piguet, E. 2019. Climatic Statelessness: Risk Assessment and Policy Options. Population and Development Review 45 (4):865-883.

Boas, I., C. Farbotko, H. Adams, H. Sterly, S. Bush, K. van der Geest, H. Wiegel, H. Ashraf, A. Baldwin, G. Bettini, S. Blondin, M. de Bruijn, D. Durand-Delacre, C. Fröhlich, G. Gioli, L. Guaita, E. Hut, F. X. Jarawura, M. Lamers, S. Lietaer, S. L. Nash, E. Piguet, D. Rothe, P. Sakdapolrak, L. Smith, B. Tripathy Furlong, E. Turhan, J. Warner, C. Zickgraf, R. Black, and M. Hulme. 2019. Climate migration myths. Nature Climate Change 9 (12):901-903.

Cattaneo, C., M. Beine, C. J. Fröhlich, D. Kniveton, I. Martinez-Zarzoso, M. Mastrorillo, K. Millock, E. Piguet, and B. Schraven. 2019. Human Migration in the Era of Climate Change. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 13 (2):189-206.

Piguet, E., Kaenzig, R., & Guélat, J. (2018). The uneven geography of research on "environmental migration". Population and Environment, 39(4), 357–383.

Piguet, E. (2018 ). Theories of voluntary and forced migration. In R. McLeman & F. Gemenne (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Environmental Migration and Displacement (pp. 17-28). London: Routledge.

2013. From "primitive migration" to "climate refugees" - The curious fate of the natural environment in migration studies. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, V103, N1, JAN 1, pp 148-162(15).




Expertise of Etienne Piguet:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeExpert Type
Scientific / Fundamental Research
ScopeImpact of Change
Vulnerability to Change
Adaptation Measures to Change
Topic Politics/LawAdaptation
Conventions / Protections
Regionalization / Globalization
Topic SocietySociety
Population Dynamics / Migration / Urbanisation
Perception / Behaviour / Attitudes
Topic SustainabilityEcological Sustainability
Social Sustainability
Topic Risk & Disaster ManagementRisk Assessment / Forecasting
MethodsData Collection - Interviews, Questionnaires
Data Collection - Documents, Archives
Data Analysis
Literature Study

Last update: 12/6/23
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)

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