The results of following three papers on vulnerability and resilience in the context of environmental change and migration, commissioned by the KNOMAD Thematic Working Group on Environmental Change and Migration, will be presented by the speakers:

Soumyadeep Banerjee, Dominic Kniveton, Richard Black and Suman Bisht
Do financial remittances build household level adaptive capacity?
A case study of the flood affected villages of Upper Assam in India

Marco Venier and Barbara Bendandi
Vulnerability and resilience in West Africa:
Understanding human mobility in the context of land degradation

Caroline Zickgraf, Sara Vigila, Florence de Longuevillea, Pierre Ozerb, and François Gemenne
The Impact of Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Changes
on Mobility Patterns in West Africa

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