Richard Matthew is a professor of urban planning and public policy at the University of California at Irvine. He is the director of UCI’s Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, Climate and Urban Sustainability Program, and Power of Music initiative; and he also directs the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation’s Climate Change and Security Program. He is a senior fellow at the International Institute for Sustainable Development; a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding; and a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Commission on Environment, Economic and Social Policy, where he co-chairs the Task Force on Climate Change and Migration. His research includes: examining links among climate change, conflict, public health and migration; developing evidence-based solutions to human trafficking; developing high resolution flood risk models in complex urban environments; and using music to mobilize youth around climate change and sustainable urban redevelopment.
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Climate change; Environment; Global health; Conflict; Peacebuilding; Displacement
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