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Dr Dalila Gharbaoui

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Department: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies

Email: dalila.gharbaoui@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3691800

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Languages: English, French

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Fields of Research

  • Climate-induced (im)mobility
  • Behavioural sciences
  • Climate Adaptation in New-Zealand and the Pacific
  • Resilience and Indigenous knowledge
  • Environmental Policy and discourses
  • Planned relocation and land governance
  • Risk management and mobility
  • Pasifika methodologies

Researcher Summary

Dr. Dalila Gharbaoui is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury. She holds a PHD in Political and Social Sciences from University of Liege (Hugo Observatory on Environmental Migration) and a PHD in Pacific studies from University of Canterbury gained with the support of the Marsden Fund Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden. Dalila’s PhD thesis focused on climate-related (im)mobility and land governance in the Pacific region.

In her enquiry, Dalila has observed planned relocation and the consequences of these on land and indigenous governance mechanisms. Field study in the Pacific revealed that people affected by climate change are forced to move but also sometimes forced to stay in locations exposed to extreme environmental hazards or gradual erosion such as sea level rise. These populations "trapped" are often the most vulnerable. At the same time, voluntary immobility is also an emerging category that often relates to all the resilience mechanisms that have been developed over time or retrieved from the past to address environmental disasters in the region. Those two observations led Dalila to explore in her future research how to frame a two-sided discursive conceptual space exploring both vulnerability and resilience of communities in the context of climate (im)mobility.

Dalila is an author to several research relevant climate adaptation, (im)mobility in the Pacific region, Africa, and Europe. She also serve as advisor on climate policy for local government in New-Zealand and has participated to various international and regional discussions on human mobility and climate change, providing expertise on planned relocation including at the UNFCCC. In the past, Dalila worked as researcher for UNHCR, IOM, UNCCD, UNU-CRIS and Amnesty International.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Environmental Studies: Environmental Studies
  • Pasifika: Pasifika
  • Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy: Comparative Politics; Human Rights; International Relations; Political Science
  • Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work, Criminology and Gender Studies: Social Science

Resources

  • POCCA project website
  • LinkedIn
  • ResearchGate profile
  • ULG Orbi profile
  • Hugo Observatory on Environment, Migration and Politics, ULG profile
  • Twitter account

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Gharbaoui D. (2018) Social and cultural dimensions of environment-related mobility and planned relocations in the South Pacific. In McLeman R; Gemenne F (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration: 20. London: Routledge. (Chapters)
  • Gharbaoui D. and Blocher J. (2018) Limits to adapting to climate change through relocations in Papua-New Guinea and Fiji. Climate Change Management: 359-379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64599-5_20. (Chapters)
  • Blocher J. and Gharbaoui D. (2017) Long Term Solutions to Cross-border Disaster Displacement: Lessons from West Africa. AFRICAN HUMAN MOBILITY REVIEW 3(3) http://dx.doi.org/10.14426/ahmr.v3i3.836. (Journal Articles)
  • Gemenne F., Blocher J., De Longueville F., Vigil diaz telenti S., Zickgraf C., Gharbaoui D. and Ozer P. (2017) Climate change, natural disasters and population displacements in West Africa. Geo-Eco-Trop 41(3): 317-337. (Journal Articles)
  • Gharbaoui D. and Blocher J. (2016) The Reason Land Matters: Relocation as Adaptation to Climate Change in Fiji Islands. In Milan A; Schraven B; Warner K; Cascone N (Ed.), Migration, Risk Management and Climate Change: Evidence and Policy Responses: 25.Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42922-9_8. (Chapters)
  • Blocher J., Gharbaoui D. and Vigil S. (2015) West Africa: a testing ground for regional solutions. Forced Migration Review (49): 18-20. (Journal Articles)
  • Van Langenhove L. and Gharbaoui D. (2015) Looking at the Atlantic and the Pacific from Europe. In Moreira Lima SE (Ed.), Global Governance - Crossed Perception: 157-206.FUNAG - Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão. (Chapters)

Future Research

  • Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment (POCCA): Partnership between University of Cantebury & University of South Pacific. Funded by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
  • STRAFPACC project aiming at redefining French security strategies in the South Pacific region in the context of climate change
  • Marsden: Rethinking future security by exploring the nexus between state-based and indigenous security systems in the Pacific

Key Methodologies

  • Lexicos
  • Talanoa
  • PRA
  • Qualitative and Quantitative
  • Longitudinal studies
  • Interdisciplinary research
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