Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Sakdapolrak

Patrick Sakdapolrak

Department of Geography and Regional Research

Universitätsstraße 7/5
1010 Wien

Tel.: +43-1-4277-48730

Email: patrick.sakdapolrak@univie.ac.at

Biography

My research field is at the interface of population dynamics, environmental change and development processes, with a focus on the topics of migration and displacement as well as health and disease. The central theme of my research is the question of how vulnerable groups live with risk. My Ph.D. thesis is based on field research in slum settlements in India, where the inhabitants have significant higher mortality and morbidity rates than the rest of the urban population. I have investigated how these poor urban groups cope with and adapt to environmental and social stresses. My current research on migration-environment relationships in Kenya and Thailand addresses the question how migration alters the way people at places of origin deal with the environment and climate change. I have the aim to pursue sound theoretical and empirical research which is relevant for wider society. I have studied Geography and Development Research in Heidelberg and Wollongong, Australia, and received my doctorate degree at Bonn University.

Research Interests
  • Conceptual: vulnerability, resilience, livelihoods, translocality, Bourdieu's Practice-Theory
  • Thematic: human-environment-relations, migration and displacement, health and disease
  • Regional: South Asia (India), South-East Asia (Thailand), East Africa (Kenia)
Publications
Sakdapolrak P, Etzold B. Globale Arbeit – lokale Verwundbarkeit: Internationale Arbeitsmigration aus der Perspektive der geographischen Verwundbarkeitsforschung. In Migration und Entwicklung aus geographischer Perspektive. 42/2012 ed. Osnabrück: Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS). 2013. p. 131-163. (IMIS-Beiträge; No. 42/2012).

Sakdapolrak P, Greiner C. Translocality: Concepts, applications and emerging research perspectives. Geography Compass. 2013;7(5):373-384. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12048

Sakdapolrak P, Raupp S, Fabian T. Armut, Nahrung und Gesundheit. Alltägliche Herausforderungen verwundbarer Gruppen in Indiens Städten. In China und Indien im 21. Jahrhundert. Selbstverlag Fach Geographie der Universität Passau. 2012. p. 109-125. (Passauer Kontaktstudium Geographie, Vol. 12).

Sakdapolrak P, Afifi T, Govil R, Warner K. Climate change, vulnerability and human mobility. Perspectives of refugees from the Horn of Africa. United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), 2012. (Report / United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS); No. 1).

Sakdapolrak P, Rademacher-Schulz C, Afifi T, Warner K, Rosenfeld T, Milan A et al. Rainfall variability, food security and human mobility: An approach for generating empirical evidence. Bonn: United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), 2012. 109 p. (Interdisciplinary security connections : InterSecTions; No. 10).

Sakdapolrak P, Butsch C, Saravanan VS. Urban health in India. Internationales Asienforum. 2012;43(1-2):13-32.

Sakdapolrak P, Promburom P. "Where the Rain Falls" project. Case study: Thailand: Results from Thung Hua Chang District, Northern Thailand. United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), 2012. (Report / United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS); No. 7).

Sakdapolrak P, Seyler T, Prasad SS. Measuring the local burden of diarrhoeal disease among slum dwellers in the megacity Chennai, South India. In Krämer A, Khan MH, Kraas F, editors, Health in megacities and urban areas. Springer. 2011. p. 87-100

Sakdapolrak P. Vom Überlebenskampf zur kulturellen Praktik. Eine Fallstudie zur internationalen Arbeitsmigration aus Thailand. In Reese N, Welkmann J, editors, Das Echo der Migration: Wie Auslandsmigration die Gesellschaft im globalen Süden verändert. Horlemann Verlag . 2010. p. 50-59

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