Sarah Lohr’s work empirically examines migration as an adaptive strategy to climate change and its potential implications for conflict. Her research seeks to provide a nuanced perspective on the circumstances under which migration may contribute to conflict. Through this approach, she aims to support policymakers in developing strategies that foster climate-resilient and peaceful societies.
In her dissertation, Sarah Lohr investigates who migrates in response to climate events and why, with a focus on the heterogeneous impacts of climate change on different population groups. She particularly examines the effects of climate variability on the economic drivers of migration. Building on this foundation, she analyzes the conditions and mechanisms through which climate-related migration can influence conflict risks at destinations, with a particular focus on internal migration and urban conflict in agriculturally dependent low- and middle-income countries.
With a background in mathematics, geography, and GIS, she primarily employs econometric techniques and other quantitative methods in her research. She also has extensive experience in processing, analyzing, and interpreting various types of geospatial data for both research and practical applications, including vector, raster, and 3D geodata.
Her doctoral studies are primarily funded by a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
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Before pursuing her doctoral studies at PIK, Sarah Lohr studied Mathematics and Geography at Heidelberg University with a focus on geographic information systems (GIS). She also worked as a researcher on a joint project between the Department of Geography at Heidelberg University and the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, as well as at the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology.
Peer-reviewed articles:
- Benedyk, A., Moldavski, A., Reichert, M., Reinhard, I., Lohr, S., Schwarz, K., ... & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2023). Initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic on real-life well-being, social contact and roaming behavior in patients with schizophrenia, major depression and healthy controls: A longitudinal ecological momentary assessment study. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 69, 79-83.
Book chapters:
- Lautenbach, S., Lohr, S., & Reichert, M. (2023). Acquisition and Analysis of Location Data. Mobile Sensing in Psychology: Methods and Applications, 85.
Technical University of Berlin:
- winter term 2022/23: "The Economics of Climate Policy" (together with Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, Dr. Martin Hänsel & Dr. Max Franks)
Heidelberg University, Department of Geography
- winter term 2021/22: "Analysis of climate change and climate change impacts with methods of spatial statistics and time series analysis" (together with Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach)
- summer term 2021: "Geodatabases" (together with Dr. Michael Auer & Moritz Schott)
- winter term 2020/21: "Analysis of climate change and climate change impacts with methods of spatial statistics and time series analysis" (together with Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach)
- winter term 2020/21: "Cartography" (together with Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach)
