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Ricardo Safra de Campos

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Exeter

Dr. Ricardo Safra de Campos is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Exeter working on population movements in the context of climate change, with a research focus on migration, sustainability and wellbeing. His work has been published in interdisciplinary journals including Nature Climate Change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Global Environmental Change, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, and discipline-specific such as Population, Space and Place. He is a contributing author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. Ricardo gave expert oral evidence on migration and climate change to EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee of the UK’s House of Lords in 2020. He serves on the advisory board of international research and policy initiatives on climate-related displacement in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean; and is on the editorial board for the journals Climatic Change; PLOSClimate; and Climate Mobilities, Frontiers in Climate.

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Exeter

Education

  • 2016 
    University of Queensland , PhD in Human Geography/Demography