I am a social scientist with focus on migration, the environment, climate change, and governance. My PhD project explores processes of planning for and resisting climate-related relocation in Fiji. I focus on the political and social relations between community members and other actors involved in adaptation and approach adaptation as an issue of political and social struggles. I use a social contract theory lens to understand how community members considered for planned relocation negotiate, develop and formulate their own visions of just and fair adaptation governance through contesting established, normative allocations of rights and responsibilities and pushing for new principles of climate justice.

 

Publications

Fry, C., Boyd, E., Connaughton, M., Adger, W. N., Gavonel, M. F., Zickgraf, C., Fransen, S., Jolivet, D., Fábos, A. H., & Carr, E. (2024). Migrants as sustainability actors: Contrasting nation, city and migrant discourses and actions. Global Environmental Change, 87, 102860. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102860

 

Gini G, Piggott-McKellar A, Wiegel H, Neu F, Link AC, Fry C, Tabe T, Adegun O, Wade C, Bower ER, Koeltzow S, Harrington-Abrams R, Jacobs C, van der Geest K, Zivdar N, Alaniz R, Cherop C, Durand-Delacre D, Pill M, Shekhar H, Yates O, Khan MAA, Nansam-Aggrey FK, Grant L, Nizar DA, Owusu-Daaku KN, Praeto A, Stefancu O, Yee M. Navigating tensions in climate change-related planned relocation. Ambio. 2024 Jun 7. doi: 10.1007/s13280-024-02035-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38847970.

 

Kalubowila, Palindi, Buri, Sinja, Lietaert, Ine, Cissé, Jennifer D., Backhouse, Judy, Janz, Teresa, Orendain, Dan Jezreel A., Oakes, Robert, Consentino de la Vega, Rafael, Fry, Claudia, Dietrich, Stephan and Okunola, Olasunkanmi H. (2024). How Can Urban Governance Better Respond to Climate Risks in the Global South? A Multi-Disciplinary Review. United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies.

 

Zickgraf, C., Jolivet, D., Fry, C., Boyd, E., & Fábos, A. (2024). Bridging and breaking silos: Transformational governance of the migration-sustainability nexus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(3). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206184120

 

Durande-Delacre D, et al. (2023) Integrating Planned Relocation in National Climate Action Five key insights for consideration by governments and policymakers. UNU-EHS Policy Brief. Bonn.

 

Olsson, L, Jerneck A, Fry C, Habib A.B. 2023. Civil Society and Social Integration of Asylum Seekers: The ‘Strength of Weak Ties’ and the Dynamics of ‘Strategic Action Fields’.Social Sciences 12: 403

 

Fry C and Islar M (2021) Horizontal Local Governance and Social Inclusion: The Case of Municipality-Civil Society Engagement During Refugee Reception in Malmö, Sweden. Front. Polit. Sci. 3:643134