Publications by Patrick Sakdapolrak
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2025
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
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
Rockenbauch, T., Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2023). Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small-scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand: (Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values Volume 36, Issue 4, December 2019). In R. Bezner Kerr, T. L. Pendergrast, B. J. Smith II, & J. Liebert (Eds.), Rethinking Food System Transformation (pp. 35-52). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09935-0
Lemke, L. K.-G., Trippl, M., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2023). Regional Economic Resilience Revisited: A capacity-based approach to deliberate system transformations. Paper presented at Global Conference on Economic Geography , Dublin, Ireland.
Merschroth, S., Sterly, H., Sakdapolrak, P., Abu, M., & Janoth, J.-N. (2023). Subjectivity and Social Positions Shape Habitability in the Context of Environmental Change: a Qualitative Case Study in Northern Ghana. Die Erde: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin - Forum für Erdsystem- und Erdraumforschung, 154(4), 123-144. https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-2023-655