Post date: Mar 31, 2014 12:41:13 PM
– CIESIN senior research associate Alex de Sherbinin travelled to Vietnam, Malaysia, and China in February 2014 to conduct field visits associated with ongoing work on climate change resettlement. He visited the Mekong Delta with the assistance of Le Thanh Sang of the Southern Institute of Social Sciences (SISS), the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) and in China, observed the Three Gorges Dam and China South-North Water Transfer project resettlement with former CIESIN visiting scholar Ruishan Chen of the National Research Center for Resettlement (NRCR) of Hohai University, Nanjing. While in China, de Sherbinin was appointed a visiting professor at Hohai University and a senior advisor for teaching and scientific research at NRCR. See his blog post at: http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2014/03/06/the-mekong-delta-and-three-gorges-dam/.