Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Asia is recruiting for a Research Fellow who is an experienced social science researcher with a strong interest and proven track record in designing and implementing successful research projects in the areas of migration, climate change disasters and adaptation. The candidate must also have good listening skills and capacity for collaboration in diverse and dynamic settings.
The authors use longitudinal household data from the Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel from 2007 to 2017 detailed rainfall and temperature data from the Global Historical Climatology Network Version 2 and the Climate Anomaly Monitoring System (respectively) to explore the extent to which droughts impact migration responses of rural households in Thailand and Vietnam, as well as the role of underlying mechanisms such as risk aversion and socioeconomic status that may affect the response.
Using panel data from the Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) from 2007 to 2017 combined with monthly high-resolution (0.5°) rainfall and temperature data, the authors explore the role of two key mediators in the association between exposure to drought and household migration: socioeconomic status and risk tolerance.
In this study the authors find that that women fish farmers as well as women and men crop farmers perceived greater climate-related risks to profits, and this corresponded with attaching greater importance to risk management practices at the farm and community levels, thus showing that gender can influence risk-taking and decision-making and therefore should be taken into account when strengthening climate risk management practices or designing adaptation interventions.
Results form this study show that when strengthening climate risk management practices or designing adaptation interventions, gender should be taken into account as it can influence risk-taking and decision-making.
The authors constructed an agent-based model derived from qualitative and quantitative analyses of a well-studied demographic field site, Nang Rong district, northeast Thailand, to examine how climate shocks might affect migration in rural agricultural areas.
The paper presented a new DE analysis for the southern Thai province of Phang Nga (located north of Phuket), to assess future population-environment interactions, and in particular the vulnerability of coastal populations to environmental factors and their future adaptive capacity. The analysis assesses population changes in the four-dimensional space, as defined by age, sex, level of education, and labour force participation
Using data from 2010 Opinions about the Environment and Global Warming (OEGW), a nationally representative survey of 3900 adults, the study investigated the relationships between climate change perceptions and climate-relevant behaviors, i.e. the actions individuals take to minimize the problem of global warming (mitigation actions) in Thailand.
Using a unique panel surveys dataset from rural Thailand, the paper explores the causes cited by surveyed household members for why the respondent’s household had a bad income year, and the associated demographic characteristics across households in which the respondent reported that environmental and other economic problems represented risk factors.
Taking a human ecology perspective, we investigate the effects of population pressure on provincial variations in fertility during the 1950s in Thailand. The research is motivated primarily by Easterlin's investigation of frontier effects in 19th century North America. We hypothesize that during the period prior to Thailand's remarkable economic expansion and fertility decline, both in-migration and rural fertility should vary positively with the availability of arable land.
