Dr. Marion Borderon MSc

Senior Scientist

Contact

Department of Geography and Regional Research
Universitätsstraße 7/5
1010 Vienna

Email: marion.borderon@univie.ac.at

Teaching

Course directory

Biography

I am a geographer with a specific interest in public health, population and development studies.

Much of my work focuses on contributing to the development of concepts and methods for the spatial assessment of vulnerability and risk in the context of environmental transformation. I have conducted research in limited data settings and I have significant experience in population-based surveys and data analysis in the Global South (Congo, Senegal, Mauritania, India, Algeria). I am currently working on the role of environmental and climate change in driving migration. My project on rural migration in the Oromia region, Ethiopia has been awarded in 2017 by the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy of the University of Vienna.

Previously, I have worked as a researcher and project leader at the University of Salzburg, Austria. I have been involved in several international projects (Climate Change Adaptation in Mauritania, vulnerability and risk assessment to CC in Algeria and forced migration in a post-disaster context in India).

I hold a PhD in geography from Aix-Marseille University, France, dealing with Malaria in Dakar, Senegal. I explored methods to target areas with epidemic risks through analysis of social vulnerability.

Research interests

Concepts and methods: risk and vulnerability assessment, complex spatial systems, Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA), survey methods

Thematic: health and disease, human environment relation, migration and climate change adaptation

Regional: Sub-Saharan Africa (Congo, Senegal, Ethiopia); North Africa (Mauretania, Algeria) and South Asia (India)

Publications

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Cattaneo, C., Shayegh, S., Albert, C., Alsina-Pujols, M., Benveniste, H., Borderon, M., Conte, B., Deuster, C., Görlach, J.-S., Haer, T., Hoffmann, R., Muttarak, R., Ronco, M., Schewe, J., & Wiśniowski, A. (2026). Broadening climate migration research across impacts, adaptation and mitigation. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02545-1
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., van der Geest, K., Durand-Delacre, D., Selby, J., Wrathall, D. J., Baldwin, A., Benítez Cortés, A., 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, 20(10), Article 101001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adfdfd, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adfdfd
Borderon, M., & Garcia, C. M. E. (2025). Wenn Gehen keine Option ist: Immobilität in Äthiopiens dürregefährdeten Gebieten. Geographische Rundschau (GR), 2025(9), 22-26.
Borderon, M. (2025). Migrations, changements environnementaux et climatiques. In Dynamiques du peuplement mondial: Comment la population habite le monde ISTE.
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
Borderon, M., & Doignon, Y. (2025). Les Français et Françaises établis hors de France. In Atlas de la population française (pp. 181-186). CNRS Editions.
Borderon, M., & Doignon, Y. (2025). Population française et environnement. In Atlas de la population française (pp. 281-288). CNRS Editions.
Hoffmann, R., Andriano, L., Striessnig, E., Rüttenauer, T., Borderon, M., & Grace, K. (2024). Climate change and population: Demographic perspectives on the 21st century’s defining challenge. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. https://doi.org/10.1553/p-nfjc-z82h
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
Lindegaard, L. S., Webster, N., Sørensen, N. N., & Borderon, M. (2024). Introduction to the special section: unfolding a governance perspective on climate-related mobilities. Climate and Development, 1-10. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2024.2379464
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
Borderon, M. (2024). Migration, Environmental and Climate Change. In Global Settlement Dynamics: How People Inhabit the World (pp. 187-212). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd..
Weldemariam, L. F., Ayanlade, A., Borderon, M., & Möslinger, K. (2023). Dynamics and factors influencing return migration to Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review. Heliyon, 9(8), Article E18791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18791
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
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
Ayanlade, A., Oluwaranti, A., Ayanlade , O. S., Borderon, M., Sterly, H., Sakdapolrak, P., Jegede, M. O., Weldemariam, L. F., & Ayinde, A. F. O. (2022). Extreme climate events in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for improving agricultural technology transfer to enhance adaptive capacity. Climate Services, 27, Article 100311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100311
Brazeau, S., Vignolles, C., Krishnamurthy, R. S., Trtanj, J., Haynes, J., Ramage, S., Catry, T., Kotchi, S. O., Borderon, M., Gill, M., Ogden, N. H., Ludwig, A., Aube, G., Semenza, J. C., Trinanes, J., & Davignon, D. (2022). Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities: A Review by Experts. In Earth Observation, Public Health and One Health: Activities, Challenges and Opportunities (pp. 93-103). CABI Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800621183.0003
Borderon, M., Ludwig, A., & Brazeau, S. (2022). Vulnerable Populations. In Earth Observation, Public Health and One Health Activities, Challenges and Opportunities (pp. 66-77). CABI Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800621183.0000
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