Dipl.-Geogr. Dr. Harald Sterly
Harald Sterly
Sommersemester 2025
290064 UE Key Methods in Analysing Migration and Population Dynamics - In the Context of Global Change and Development I
290065 SE Migration and Population Dynamics in the Context of Global Change and Development - Research Design, Implementation and Analysis
Wintersemester 2024
290026 UE Key Methods in Analysing Migration and Population Dynamics - in the Context of Global Change and Development II
290027 SE Migration and Population Dynamics in the Context of Global Change and Development - Research Design, Implemention and Analysis II
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



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


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, Artikel 102953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102953



Hermans, K., Djanibekov, N., Abdullaev, I., Abduvalieva, N., Assubayeva, A., Blondin, S., Bobojonov, I., Conrad, C., Herzfeld, T., Kansiime, J., Kimsanova, B., Laldjebaev, M., Mirkasimov, B., Murzakulova, A., Rajabova, S., Samakov, A., Schraven, B., Sterly, H., & Umirbekov, A. (2024). Future research directions for understanding the interconnections between climate change, water scarcity, and mobility in rural Central Asia. Climate and Development, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2024.2436090

The Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (Hrsg.), Banerjee, S., & Sterly, H. (2024). Technical guide on integrating human mobility and climate change linkages into relevant national climate change planning processes. United Nations Climate Change Secretariat. https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/WIM_ExCom_human-mobility_TFD_2024.pdf


Simpson, N. P., Mach, K. J., Tebboth, M. G. L., Gilmore, E. A., Siders, A. R., Holden, P., Anderson, B., Chandni, S., Sabour, S., Stringer, L. C., Sterly, H., Williams, P. A., Meyer, A. L. S., Cundill, G., Rosengaertner, S., Nunow, A., Amakrane, K., & Trisos, C. H. (2024). Research priorities for climate mobility. One Earth, 7(4), 589-607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.002

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), Artikel e2206185120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206185120

Oakes, R., van der Geest, K., Schraven, B., Adaawen, S., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., de Sherbinin, A., Etzold, B., Groth, J., Hermans, K., Lakemann, S., Nawrotzki, R., Rademacher-Schulz, C., Romankiewicz, C., Serraglio, D. A., Sterly, H., Thalheimer, L., Wiederkehr, C., & Williams, D. (2023). A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility. International Migration, 61(5), 116-125. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13169

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

Ayanlade, A., Smucker, T., Nyasimi, M., Sterly, H., Weldemariam, L. F., & Simpson, N. P. (2023). Complex Climate Change Risk and Emerging Directions for Vulnerability Research in Africa. Climate Risk Management, 40, Artikel 100497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2023.100497



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

"Human Climate Niche" and Habitability

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

16 Juli 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Research Integrity and Ethics

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

16 Juli 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

10 Juli 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world

Borderon, M. (Vortragende*r), Sterly, H. (Autor*in) & Sakdapolrak, P. (Autor*in)

28 März 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Towards a Systematization and a Concretization of Human Mobilities in the Anthropocene

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r) & Sakdapolrak, P. (Vortragende*r)

28 März 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Making the Concept of Habitability work for ClimateResilient and Just Development

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

5 Dez. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Klimawandel, Migration und Gesundheit

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

17 Okt. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Klimakrise und Migration - 7 Dinge, die man darüber wissen sollte

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

16 Okt. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Surviving Climate Shocks: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of (Im)mobility in a rural region of Ethiopia

Borderon, M. (Vortragende*r), Garcia, C. (Vortragende*r), Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r), Bunchuay-Peth, S. A. (Vortragende*r), Reboul, L. (Vortragende*r), Assefa, N. (Vortragende*r) & Dheresa, M. (Vortragende*r)

29 Aug. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The same for all? Rethinking habitability for an unequal and connected world

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r), Sakdapolrak, P. (Vortragende*r) & Borderon, M. (Vortragende*r)

27 Aug. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Translocal social resilience dimensions of migration as adaptation to environmental change

Sakdapolrak, P. (Vortragende*r), Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r) & Borderon, M. (Vortragende*r)

25 Aug. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


ECMN Meeting – Stock taking and ways forward

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r) & Bunchuay-Peth, S. A. (Vortragende*r)

11 Juli 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



Case Study on Migration and Climate Change Adapation

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r) & Vladicescu, N. (Vortragende*r)

8 Feb. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public




Conceptualising habitability in a connected, unequal and changing world

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

4 Okt. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Key steps for mainstreaming migration into National Adaptation Plans - Compiling the NAP document

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

22 Sept. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


Conceptualising habitability in a connected, unequal and changing world

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

22 Juni 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Translocal social resilience dimensions of migration as adaptation to environmental change

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r), Sakdapolrak, P. (Vortragende*r) & Borderon, M. (Vortragende*r)

21 Juni 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Towards more equitable adaptation: an intersectional approach to climate impacts, habitability, and migration

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

8 Juni 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Mainstreaming migration considerations into the National Adaptation Plan of the Republic of Moldova

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

7 Juni 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public



Climate change, water scarcity and migration in Central Asia

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

28 Apr. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The Contributions of Migration for Climate Change Adaptation in Moldova

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

16 März 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


Thinking habitability as socially differentiated, and as influenced by tele-connections

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

13 März 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Klimakrise und Migration - 7 Dinge, die man darüber wissen sollte

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

14 Dez. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


Wirklich vom Winde verweht? 7 Dinge, die man über die Klimakrise und Migration wissen sollte

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

8 Nov. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

28 Apr. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Integrating Migration into National Adaptation Plans

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r) & Banerjee, S. (Vortragende*r)

22 März 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


6 things we all need to know about climate change and migration

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r) & Nash, S. L. (Vortragende*r)

3 Dez. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Wirklich vom Winde verweht? 7 Dinge, die man über Klimawandel und Migration wissen sollte

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

18 Nov. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Translocal social resilience dimensions of migration as adaptation to environmental change

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r) & Sakdapolrak, P. (Vortragende*r)

12 Nov. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Wirklich vom Winde verweht? Klimaflüchtlinge - Ursachen und Dimensionen eines neuen Phänomens“

Sterly, H. (Vortragende*r)

31 Dez. 2016

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


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harald.sterly@univie.ac.at