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HABITABLE team member Maria Franco Gavonel is a Lecturer in Global Social Policy and International Development in the School for Business and Society, University of York. She is an economist with experience in quantitative applied research and policy design. In HABITABLE, she will develop and test a model of social tipping points.
HABITABLE aims to significantly advance our understanding of the current interlinkages between climate impacts and migration and displacement patterns, in order to better anticipate their future evolutions.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 869395. The content reflects only the authors’ views, and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
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