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First Name

Hannah

Last Name

Teicher

Nickname for tagging

hteicher

Description

I am the Researcher in Residence for the built environment at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions where I build collaborations between academia, government, industry and NGOs for applied climate research. My work focuses on urban climate action within a complex governance context, tackling issues such as embodied carbon, assisted relocation, and multi-sectoral cooperation. I have served in a leadership role with the Climigration Network, helping to develop a guidebook to close the gap between practitioners and frontline communities in conversations around community-led relocation. I received a PhD in urban and regional planning from MIT and a Master of Architecture from the University of British Columbia.

I am currently synthesizing emerging research on receiving communities, contemporary immigrant reception and adaptation planning in the U.S. and Canada to illuminate barriers and opportunities for integrating climate migrants in urban destinations. This will lay the groundwork for case studies of various types of receiving communities across North America from those branding themselves as climate havens to those likely to receive large influxes of newcomers whether or not they attend to the climate aspect of immigration. In a future phase, I plan to analyze receiving communities in northern regions spanning Canada and Scandinavia, attending to risks of displacing Indigenous communities and land uses.

 

Profile Type

Migration Researcher/Applicant

Website

https://hannahteicher.net/

ORCID

https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-8246-3134

Country

Canada, US