Conferences

• The Politics of Justice and Adaptation to a Changing “Climate”: Transformation through Resistance, Care, and Decolonial Praxis". The Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and Understanding through the Social Sciences, (ICARUS) Workshop. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. Sept 29.

• "Transformative policy futures in the age of the Anthropocene". International Conference on Public Policy, Toronto Metropolitan University. June 27. (Opening plenary)

• "Habitability, Loss and Damage, and Climate Justice". Columbia Managed Conference, University of Columbia, New York. June 19 (Opening plenary)

• "Justice and Equity in Climate Science” at the 2022 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Symposium organized by Portland State University Center for Climate and Aerosol Research. August 19

• "Understanding the Complexity of Justice and Climate Change", 27th UCAR/NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM) Workshop. June 14. 

• "Managed Retreat Forum: Global Lessons for Success". UC Davis, Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnerships and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, Washington DC, April 8

• "Global mapping of justice and success models in managed retreat”. At What Point: Managed Retreat, Resilience, and Climate Justice. Columbia University. June 24 

• "Resilient Landscapes, for whom, to what, and at what cost?" American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Symposium. Portland Chapter. April 9 

• Navigating Equitable Coastal Adaptation in a Rapidly Changing Climate: Float, Retreat, or Do Nothing? Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. November 16 (Guest Speaker)

• Shifting landscapes of spatial equity and justice: Who is vulnerable or Resilient tocascading and consecutive hazards in the Portland, Metro-region”.  Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium, Special Nominated Seminar talk. November 3. (Guest Speaker)

• Journal Editors Panel Conversations on Innovation and Equity in Journal Publishing, Climigration Network: (Panelist)

• Environmental racism, climate risk, and transformation of the commons.  Graduate Seminar at Department of Law. The Catholic University of Santos, Brazil. May 19 (GuestSpeaker)

• Shifting landscapes of spatial equity and justice: Who is vulnerable or Resilient to cascading and consecutive hazards in the Portland, Metro-region” at Department Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware. April 28. (Guest Speaker)  

• Challenges to implementing managed retreat in the Global South and Global North. Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Boston. April 19. (Guest Speaker)

• "Reflections on justice, decision making, and success in global relocation programs" at People on the Move in a Changing Climate Alaska, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Islands, and International Workshop. Anchorage. April 12. (Panelist)

• Float or retreat? The justice conundrum in coastal adaptation’ at the Climate and Clean Energy Series organized by Schatz Energy Research Center, Cal Poly Humboldt. April 6. (Guest Speaker)

• Just relocations and migrations: Understanding trade-offs and success. Graduate Seminar, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, March 20 (Guest Speaker)

• Unhoused by Wildfires and the Previously Unhoused: Differential Media Portrayals of Wildfire Displacement and Homelessness in Portland, Oregon", Cascadia Wildfire Webinar, Portland State University. March 23 (Panelist)

• Can managed retreat programs be successful and just? Global Evidence from post-resettlement Programs. Climate Mobilities Working Group, Princeton University. March 17 (Guest Speaker)

• Who Matters and Why: Identifying Hotspots of Vulnerability and Resilience to Cascading Consecutive Disasters in Portland, Oregon. Sociology Departmental Seminar, Portland State University. March 10 (Guest Speaker)

• Building Just Resilient Coastal Futures: The Role of Climatopias in Closing or expanding the equity gap in adaptation”, Perry World House Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, September 30. (Panelist)

• Environmental justice, disadvantage communities and disproportionate impacts of climate change: identifying what’s missing in research, University of Southern California, Sea Grant. People on the Move in a Changing Climate. September, 28. (Panelist)

• Radical imaginings, intersectionality, and climate justice” Environmental Justice and Interventions Workshop, UC Santa Barbara, August 27 (Panelist)

• Portland Equitable Resilience to Climate-Cascading Hazards: Identifying levers of transformations at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Innovators workshop, Boulder July 27 (Panelist) 

• On the Move—Climate Relocation and Social Justice, 47th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Boulder, July 12, 2022 (Plenary Speaker)

• Success models and intersectional justice in Global Climate relocation” at Metcalf Institute 24TH Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists, June 9 (Panelist)

• Confronting the Realities of sea level rise for Brooklyn’s Jamaica Bay Communities and examining models for transformative adaptation. Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center Annual Conference organized by the City University of New York. May 13 (Panelist)

• Policy consultation on the limits of adaptation: Planned relocations and resettlement organized by the Africa Climate Mobility Initiative, IOM, the World Bank, and the African Union. May 12 (Panelist)

• Radical Imaginings: Global Climate Relocations and Transformative Justice at Geography Seminar Series, Oregon State University. April 29 (Guest Speaker)

• The Resilience Fix to Climate Disasters: Recursive Relations with Equity and Justice-Based Transformations in the Global South. RISE IRT Seminar Series, University of Colorado, April 11 (Guest Speaker) 

• Climate Adaptation, Greening, Resilience Planning in Coastal Cities: A research agenda on just transformations. The University of Miami. April 6 (Guest Speaker)

• Cities and Global Climate Justice: UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Global Mini-Summit. March 2 (Panelist)

2021

• Resilient urbanism in an era of uncertainties: challenging dominant forms and flows. Hatfield Resident Fellow Professional Development. Portland State University, October 7. (Guest Speaker) 

• Global mapping of success in managed retreat: towards an intersectional justice approach. Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. October 6 (Guest Speaker)

• Justice-oriented transformative resilience planning in response to climate disasters. NCAR [Innovator Faculty 2] PI Symposium. July 28 (Guest Speaker)

• Science Special Issue. At What Point: Managed Retreat, Resilience and Climate Justice. Columbia University. June 24 (Panelist)

• Managed Retreat and Climate Migration: Differences and Intersections. Climate Migration Workshop. Portland State University. June 11 (Guest Speaker)

• Building Resilient and Egalitarian Cities after Mega-Disasters: Lessons from Manila. Emergency Management and Community Resilience Speakers Series, Portland State University. June 10 (Guest Speaker)

• Sea level rise, ungovernable spaces, success in managed retreat. Metcalf Institute, Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists. The University Of Rhode Island. June 8 (Panelist)

• Centering justice, community voices, and indigenous knowledge in climate adaptation. Dallman Lecture Series Panel for the John Sloan Dickey Center, Dartmouth College, May 10 (Panelist)

• Creating governable spaces and Populations: ‘Success’ and Equity in managed retreat as a climate adaptation. Public Seminar Series on International Justice, Rights, and the Environment, Stanford University, April 19 (Guest Speaker)

• Socio-spatial, socio-ecological, and socio-technical resilience fixes to climate change and grassroots counter-resistance strategies in Metro-Manila. Seminar Guest Speaker. The University of Miami. April 16 (Guest Speaker)

• Societal transformation, climate adaptation and ethics of change. Wesleyan University. April 8 (Guest Speaker)

• Who negotiates resilience? on behalf of whom? Tag We’re It/Voices on Resilience. Portland State University, February 25 (Panelist)

• Transformative resilience vs. resilience fixes: examining the recursive process of capitalist urbanization and disaster capitalism in Global South Cities. The University of Oregon, February 11 (Guest Speaker)

2020

• Connecting Urban Violence and Climate Change in African Cities organized by UK’s Global Challenge Research Fund, Climate Change and Urban Violence Network and Nottingham University. December 2 (Panelist)

• Urban Natures: Interrogating social justice and resilience planning in coastal cities. Dartmouth College. November 12 (Panelist) 

• Entanglement and disentanglement: Identifying commonalities and differences between climate migration and managed retreat, Middlebury Institute of International Studies Monterey, California, November 4. (Guest Speaker)

• Retreat as a socio-spatial resilience fix: post-disaster responses and climate adaptation in the Global South, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU), October 28 (Guest Speaker)

• The Resilience Fix: Destruction and Repair after Climate Disasters in the Global South, Harvard University, Graduate School of Urban Planning and Design, October 14, (Guest Speaker)

• Managed retreat and climate migration: as two distinct responses to climate extremes. Metcalf Institute, Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists.  The University Of Rhode Island. June 9 (Panelist)

2019

• • • • Coastal Climate Relocation: How to Manage, Managed Retreat. Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Center for the Blue Economy, Speakers Series, Monterrey, CA. November 12 (Panelist)

2017

• Canada in a Climate Disrupted World, Balsillie School of International Affairs. Workshop. Waterloo, Ontario. Canada April 18-19, 2017 (Panelist)

2016

• Popular Culture and World Politics Conference, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada. November 12-13 (Guest Speaker)

2015

• Global Climate Governance and Canadian Policy: Looking Forward to Paris 2015 Balsillie School of International Affairs & the Interdisciplinary Center on Climate Change, University of Waterloo. Canada March 26. (Panelist)

2014

• What is transformative about adaptation? Waterloo Interdisciplinary Centre On Climate Change (IC3), Waterloo University, Waterloo, ON. June 19-20 (Panelist)

2012

• Understanding the Connections Between Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts and Human Rights. IRACC Cities at Risk Project, Western University, London, ON, April 25 (Guest Speaker)

• A Progressive Trajectory of Inquiry in Global Environmental Change: What The role might the Sub-disciplines of Geography (physical and human) Play and How? Critical Reading Series, Western University, London. ON, March 2 (Guest Speaker)

2010

• Climate Change as National Security Issue for Canada, Western University. May 25-26. 2010 (Panelist)

• Gender and Climate Justice, Civicus Youth Assembly, University of Concordia, Montreal, Aug 19. 2010 (Panelist)

2007

• • • • International Conference on Human Rights and Anti-corruption, ICHRP Conference. The meeting, Geneva, Switzerland. July 11-13 (Conference Organizer)

2005

• • • • Redefining Human Rights in Asian Culture. Paper: Human Rights Discussion, Series. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, July 12 (Panelist). 

2004

• The Role of Philosophical Enquiry in Nation Building. Annual Inter-Faculty Dialogues,  Obafemi Awolowo University. Nigeria, August 3-5, 2004 (Panelist)

• Advancing Equitable Resilience Planning for Climate Hazards in the Portland, Region. *Ajibade I, Walter M., Sauer J., Lower C., Done, J, Ge M., **Raghunathasami. A, Sowards M. NCAR Early Career Faculty Innovators Workshop, Boulder, Colorado August 2 (Poster)

• Unraveling Vulnerability and Resilience to Cascading Disasters: Leveraging Climate Modeling for Spatial Justice and Policy Transformation. *Ajibade I, Matthew Walter, Jason Sauer, Chris Lower, James Done, Ming Ge, Aswatha Raghunathasami, Elliot Gall, Paul Loikith, Mae Sowards, Heejun Chang. NCAR Early Career Faculty Innovators Workshop. Boulder, Colorado. August 1 (Oral presentation)

• Getting Started in Convergence Research, NCAR Early Career Faculty Innovators Workshop. Boulder, Colorado. July 31(Panelist)

• Climate Resettlement and Livelihood Transformation in Rwanda: The Case of the Rweru Model Village. Dale L and Ajibade I. Managed Retreat Conference, Columbia University. New York. June 21. (Oral presentation)

• Relating social, ecological, and technological vulnerability to future flood exposure at two spatial scales in four U.S. cities. Authors: Sauer, J. Pallathadka, A., Ajibade, I., Berbés, M., Chang, H., Cook, E., Grimm, N. B., Iwaniec, D., Lloyd, R., Post. G. (Oral Presentation)

• Shifting Landscapes of Spatial Equity and Justice: Who is Vulnerable or Resilient to Cascading and Consecutive Hazards in the Portland Metro Region. *Ajibade I, Walter M, Sauer, J, Lower C, Done J, Ge M, Goldstein S, Pallathadka A., Gall E., Lokith P., Chang H. Urban Ecology and Conservation (UERC) Symposium, Portland April 4 (Oral presentation)

• April Beyond Redlining: Do gentrification, displacement, and neighborhood exclusivity predict access to healthy trees? Idowu Ajibade, **Kate Gregory, and **Axcelle Campana. Urban Ecology and Conservation (UERC) Symposium. April 4 (Poster) 

• Urban Flood Risk Governance: What Do Practitioners Think About Current Flood-Risk Management Strategies? **Pallathadka A, Lloyd R, Sauer J, Chang H., Iwaniec D, Berbes-Blazquez, M, Ajibade, Grimm N., Cook E., Post G. American Association of Geographers, Conference, March 27 (Oral presentation) 

• Understanding Adaptation as Labor: Implications for Critical Climate Research. American Association of Geographers, Conference. March 25 (Panelist)

• Beyond Redlining: Do Gentrification, Displacement, and Neighborhood Exclusivity Predict Access to Healthy Trees? Ajibade I, **Gregory K, **Campana A. American Association of Geographers, Conference. March 25 (Oral presentation)

• Unequal Vulnerability and Resilience to Consecutive Climate Disaster: Centering the Experiences of Disadvantaged population in Portland Oregon. *Ajibade I, Walter M, Sauer, J, Lower C, Done J, Ge M, Goldstein S, Pallathadka A., Gall E., Lokith P., Chang H. American Association of Geographers, Conference. March 24 (Session Chair and  presenter)

• Challenges and Opportunities Related to Climate-Induced Human Mobility and Migration. American Association of Geographers, Conference. March 24 (Panelist)

• Unequal Urban Park Quality Leads to Environmental Injustice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Walter M, Bagozzi B, Ajibade I., Mondal Pinki. March 23 (Oral presentation)

2022

• Who Matters and Why: Identifying Hotspots of Vulnerability and Resilience to Cascading and Consecutive Disasters in Portland, Oregon.  American Geophysical Union, *Ajibade I,   Lower C, Walter M, Loikith P., Done., J, Ge M, Pallathadka, A., Sauer J, Russell E., and Chang H. American Geophysical Union. December 12 (Oral presentation)

• Meteorological Drivers and Local Impacts of the Exceptional 2020 Labor Day Weather Event over Western North America. **Russell E, Loikith P, Ajibade I, Done J, Lower C. American Geophysical Union. December 12 (oral presentation)

• Understanding Vectors of Inequalities and Access for Minoritized Faculty in the USA.  München, Germany. Thanheiser E. Greco G., Weasel L., Ajibade. I, Martinez L. July 28 (Oral presentation)

• Portland Equitable Resilience to Climate-Cascading Hazards: Identifying levers of Transformations. *Ajibade. I., at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Innovator’s workshop, Boulder July 27. (Oral presentation)

• Differential Media Portrayals of Fire Displacement and Loss for Previously Housed and Unhoused Individuals. Maude Hines, *Ajibade I, Janet Cowal, Emily Leickly. Community Research and Action in the West Conference, February 25 (Oral presentation)

2021

• Social, ecological, and technological characteristics of vulnerability to flooding at parcel and census block group scales. **Sauer, Chang H, Pallathadka A, *Ajibade I, Berbes M, Lloyd R, Cook E, Grimm N, Iwaniec D. American Geophysical Union, December, 16 (Oral presentation) 

• Global views on equitable retreat. At What Point: Managed Retreat, Resilience and Climate Justice. Columbia University. June 23 (Session Chair)

• Perspectives on Urban Political Ecology and Disaster Studies. American Association of Geographers. April 8 (Discussant)

• Urban Flood Resilience Through Flood Modelling, Stakeholders Engagement, and Managed Retreat: A Case Study of Four US Cities. Chang, H., **Pallathadka A., Sauer J., Ajibade. I, Berbes., M., Cook., E., Grimm., N., Iwaniec D., American Association of Geographers Conference. April 7 (Oral presentation)

• Livelihoods and Lifeways: discourses about land and sense of place in managed retreat policies in coastal Louisiana. **Sullivan M and Ajibade. I American Association of Geographers. April 8 (Poster Presentation)

2020

• • • • Separating the Signal from the Noise: Identifying and Preparing for Cascading Disasters Involving Volcanic Eruptions in the 2020s. Jonathan Fink and Ajibade I. American Geophysical Union, December, 9-13 (Poster Presentation) 

2019

• Managed retreat in a north-south context: from resistance to acceptance in coastal riskscapes. Haeffner M and Ajibade I. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December, 9-13 (Oral Presentation)

• Triple Exposure: mapping climatic, economic, and socio-spatial drivers of risk and resilience in a sustainable city. *Ajibade. I., Northwest Climate Conference. Portland, Oregon, Oct 9. (Oral Presentation)

• Planned retreat and resilience planning in megacities: a political and environmental Justice conundrum. *Ajibade. I., Environmental Justice Conference ‘Transformative Connections’. University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. July 2-4. (Oral presentation)

• Managed retreat in Global South megacities: disentangling policy, practice, and environmental justice. *Ajibade. I., Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York. June 20 (Oral presentation)

• Water System Consolidation and Contested Use: Human Capabilities in East Porterville.  **Egge M. and Ajibade I. Center for Sustainability, Santa Clara University.  May 2, 2019. (Poster)

• Why some cities transform and others remain vulnerable: interrogating enablers and barriers to transformative adaptation in Metro-Manila. *Ajibade. I., American Association of Geographers Conference, Washington, DC, April 7 (Oral presentation).

• The effects of state power on emotion, and emotional power on the State: Negotiating water access in East Porterville. **Egge M and Ajibade I American Association of Geographers Conference, Washington, DC, April 4 (Oral presentation)

• The double-edged nature of patronage politics, capital accumulation, and transformative adaptation in the Philippines. *Ajibade. I., Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Portland, OR, March 21. (Session Chair and presenter)

• Water security and contested use in East Porterville: A human Capabilities approach. **Egge M and Ajibade I Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Portland, OR, March 20 (Oral presentation)

• Perception vs. reality: Understanding environmental ideologies and influences on sustainable action in Portland, Oregon. *Ajibade. I., 8th Annual SPSP Sustainability Psychology Preconference, Portland, OR, February 7 (Poster)

2018

• Sustainable Development Goal on Food Security and Agriculture: A political ecology analysis of opportunities and barriers in Nigeria and Qatar. *Ajibade. I. Annual Sustainability and Development Conference. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 9-11  (Oral presentation).

2017

• Sustainability transitions: exploring risk management and the future of adaptation in Lagos.  *Ajibade I, Pelling M, Agboola, J and Garschagen M. American Association of Geographers Conference, Boston, MA, April 5-9 (Oral presentation).

2016

• Transformation and Resilience on Urban Coasts. Pelling, M., Agboola, J., Birkmann, J.,  Grimmond, S. B., Garschagen, M., and Ajibade I. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December, 12-16 (Oral presentation).

• Managed Retreat for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Comparison of Three Coastal Megacities” 6th. Doberstein, B, Rutledge, A., Ajibade I, and Tadgell, A.  International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos, Switzerland, August 30, 2016 (Oral presentation).

• Is Urban Resilience and Adaptation Mutual? Emerging lessons from Eko Atlantic City.*Ajibade. I. URBAN ARK Conference, Mzuzu University, Lilongwe, Malawi. February 1-3 (Oral presentation)

2014

• A critique of adaptation strategies to storm surges and sea level rise. *Ajibade. I., Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), Brock University, St. Catherine, ON, May 26-30 (Oral presentation).

• Discourse analysis of urban planning and adaptation to sea level rise: A case study of Eko Atlantic City in Nigeria. *Ajibade. I. American Association of Geographers.  Tampa, Florida, April 8-13 (Oral presentation)

2013

• Climate Extremes and slum communities: where does adaptation begin? *Ajibade. I. 4th Global Forum on Urban Resilience & Adaptation: The Resilient Cities Congress, Bonn, Germany, and May 31-June 2 (Panelist)

• Living between vulnerability and disaster: the untold stories of women on the frontlines of climate change in Nigeria. *Ajibade. I. American Association of Geographers.  Los-Angeles, California, April 9-13 (Oral presentation)

2012

• Vulnerability to climate extremes and the right to adequate housing:  Experience of slum Communities in Lagos, Nigeria. *Ajibade. I. Canadian Association of Geographers- Ontario Division (CAGONT) University of Toronto, Scarborough, Oct. 13 (Oral presentation).

2010

• Climate change & human Rights: Exploring a marriage of inconvenience. *Ajibade. I. International Research Conference, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, June 18 (Oral presentation)

• To Leave or Stay- ‘Climigration’ in an Uncertain Policy Regime. *Ajibade. I. American Association of Geographers Conference, Washington, DC, USA, April 14-18 (Oral presentation).

2009

• IISD Policy Dialogue with Civil Society on the UNFCCC Negotiations Canadian Considerations in the lead-up to COP 15. Montreal, Quebec. May 19, (Talk).