Guy Abel
Research Scholar
Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Guy Abel joined the IIASA World Population (POP) Program as a Research Scholar in November 2011. His research focuses on techniques for estimating migration patterns and applying statistical methods to better forecast components of population change. He is also the leader of the International Migration research group at the Asian Demographic Research Institute and Professor in the School of Sociology and Political Sciences at Shanghai University. He received China's National 1000 Expert Award for Young Professionals in 2017 and Shanghai's 1000 Foreign Expert Award in 2015.Previously he worked at the Vienna Institute of Demography, the ESRC Centre for Population Change and S3RI at the University of Southampton.
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Last update: 13 MAY 2020
Publications
Qi, W., Muttarak, R. , & Abel, G. (2017). Bilateral Migration Measures. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-17-014
Grecequet, M., DeWaard, J., Hellmann, J.J., & Abel, G. (2017). Climate Vulnerability and Human Migration in Global Perspective. Sustainability 9 (5) p. 720. 10.3390/su9050720.
Abel, G. , Barakat, B., KC, S., & Lutz, W. (2016). Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals leads to lower world population growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (50) 14294-14299. 10.1073/pnas.1611386113.
Abel, G. , Barakat, B., KC, S., & Lutz, W. (2016). Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals leads to lower world population growth. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-16-007
Abel, G. & Muttarak, R. (2015). When the Well Runs Dry, Where Do We Go Now? Exploring Internal Migration due to Climate Stress in Asia and Central and South America. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.