Publications by Patrick Sakdapolrak
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2025
Mallick, B., Hunter, L. M., Ackerly, B., Priodarshini, R., Kelman, I., Boas, I., Castro, B., Czaika, M., Ahmed, B., Ahsan, M. N., Arboleda, M. F., Bailey, A., Bayrak, M. M., Best, K., Carrico, A., Draper, J., Etzold, B., Farbotko, C., Gain, A. K., ... van den Berg, J. (2025). Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02506-8
Sterly, H., Borderon, M., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2025). Dépasser le déterminisme environnemental: Recentrer le social dans les débats sur l’habitabilité et les migrations. mondes & migrations, 1351(4), 11-19. Article 2637. https://doi.org/10.4000/14ywp
Boas, I., Sterly, H., Farbotko, C., Hulme, M., Benveniste, H., Schewel, K. D., Bettini, G., Borderon, M., Hoffmann, R., Geest, K. V. D., Durand-Delacre, D., Selby, J., Wrathall, D. J., Baldwin, A., Cortés, A. B., Bukari, K. N., Bunchuay-Peth, S., Capisani, S., Codjoe, S. N. A., ... Zickgraf, C. (2025). Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adfdfd
Diniega, R., Bunchuay-Peth, S. A., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2025). From individual to collective social remittances: the role of translocal moorings in climate adaptation in Morocco. Mobilities. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2025.2506063
Sterly, H., Borderon, M., Sakdapolrak, P., Adger, W. N., Ayanlade, A., Bah, A., Blocher, J., Blondin, S., Boly, S., Brochier, T., Brüning, L., Bunchuay-Peth, S. A., O'Byrne, D., Safra de Campos, R., Codjoe, S. N. A., Debève, F., Detges, A., Franco-Gavonel, M., Hathaway, C., ... Zickgraf, C. (2025). Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world. Global Environmental Change, 90, Article 102953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102953
Garcia, C., Borderon, M., Sakdapolrak, P., Assefa, N., Bunchuay-Peth, S., Dheresa, M., Reboul, L., & Sterly, H. (2025). Unveiling invisible climate im/mobilities: mixed-methods case study of a drought-prone rural area of Kersa, Ethiopia. Regional Environmental Change, 25(1), Article 34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-025-02373-1
Sakdapolrak, P. (2025). Migration im Kontext des Klimawandels: Was wir wissen und was nicht. Geographische Rundschau (GR), 9 (2025), 4-9.
Diniega, R., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2025). Social remittances and the environment in the context of climate change: What do we know? Where do we go? Climate and Development, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2024.2449121
Tadee, R., Sakdapolrak, P., Sterly, H., & Pagogna, R. (2025). The Roles of Information Communication Technology in Translocal Embedding and Anchoring Among Thai Migrant Workers in South Korea. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.70008
2024
Ober, K., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2024). How and When Does International Migration Policy Travel Across Scales? Understanding the Limits to Migration as Adaptation Through the Lens of Thailand. Die Erde: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin - Forum für Erdsystem- und Erdraumforschung, 155(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-2024-664
Thongchaithanawut, M., Borderon, M., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2024). Regional evidence of environmental mobility in Southeast Asia: A systematic review of the empirical evidence. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 45(3), 533-562. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12562
Janoth, J.-N., Abu, M., Sakdapolrak, P., Sterly, H., & Merschroth, S. (2024). The impact of migration on culturally-embedded and subjective perceptions of habitability in a context of environmental change: A case study from Northern Ghana . Erdkunde: Archiv für wissenschaftliche Geographie, 78(1), 35-55. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2024.01.02
Sakdapolrak, P., Sterly, H., Borderon, M., Bunchuay-Peth, S. A., Naruchaikusol, S., Ober, K., Porst, L., & Rockenbauch, T. (2024). Translocal social resilience dimensions of migration as adaptation to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 121(3), Article e2206185120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206185120
2023
Pagogna, R., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2023). How migration information campaigns shape local perceptions and discourses of migration in Harar city, Ethiopia. International Migration, 61(5), 142-155. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13112
Lemke, L. K.-G., Sakdapolrak, P., & Trippl, M. (2023). Unresolved issues in regional economic resilience: Conceptual ways forward. Progress in Human Geography, 47(5), 699-717. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231191242
Weldemariam, L. F., Sakdapolrak, P., & Ayanlade, A. (2023). Household food-security strategies and migration in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: food-security strategies and migration. Scientific African, 21, Article e01801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01801
Stange, G., Pagogna, R., Sterly, H., Sakdapolrak, P., Borderon, M., Schraven, B., & Serraglio, D. A. (2023). Impeded Migration as Adaptation: COVID-19 and Its Implications for Translocal Strategies of Environmental Risk Management. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 16(1), 157-169. https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0093
Szaboova, L., Adger, W. N., Safra de Campos, R., Maharjan, A., Sakdapolrak, P., Sterly, H., Conway, D., Codjoe, S. N. A., & Abu, M. (2023). Evaluating migration as successful adaptation to climate change: Trade-offs in well-being, equity, and sustainability. One Earth, 6(6), 620-631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.05.009
Sakdapolrak, P., Borderon, M., & Sterly, H. (2023). The limits of migration as adaptation. A conceptual approach towards the role of immobility, disconnectedness and simultaneous exposure in translocal livelihoods systems. Climate and Development, 16(2), 87-96. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2180318
Groth, J., Seppelt, R., Sakdapolrak, P., Senbeta, F., & Hermans, K. (2023). Why smallholders stop engaging in forest activities: the role of in-migration in livelihood transitions in forested landscapes of southwestern Ethiopia. Ecology and Society, 28(1), Article 52. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14022-280152