Marion Borderon

Dr. Marion Borderon MSc

Dr. Marion Borderon MSc

Senior Scientist

Contact

Department of Geography and Regional Research
Universitätsstraße 7/5
1010 Vienna

Tel.: +43-1-4277-48733

Email: marion.borderon@univie.ac.at

Teaching

Course directory

Biography

I am a geographer with a specific interest in public health, population and development studies.

Much of my work focuses on contributing to the development of concepts and methods for the spatial assessment of vulnerability and risk in the context of environmental transformation. I have conducted research in limited data settings and I have significant experience in population-based surveys and data analysis in the Global South (Congo, Senegal, Mauritania, India, Algeria). I am currently working on the role of environmental and climate change in driving migration. My project on rural migration in the Oromia region, Ethiopia has been awarded in 2017 by the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy of the University of Vienna.

Previously, I have worked as a researcher and project leader at the University of Salzburg, Austria. I have been involved in several international projects (Climate Change Adaptation in Mauritania, vulnerability and risk assessment to CC in Algeria and forced migration in a post-disaster context in India).

I hold a PhD in geography from Aix-Marseille University, France, dealing with Malaria in Dakar, Senegal. I explored methods to target areas with epidemic risks through analysis of social vulnerability.

Research interests

Concepts and methods: risk and vulnerability assessment, complex spatial systems, Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA), survey methods

Thematic: health and disease, human environment relation, migration and climate change adaptation

Regional: Sub-Saharan Africa (Congo, Senegal, Ethiopia); North Africa (Mauretania, Algeria) and South Asia (India)

Current Research Projects

AGRUMIG – "Leaving something behind" – Migration governance and agricultural and rural change in "home" communities: comparative experience from Europe, Asia and Africa
HABITABLE – Linking Climate Change, Habitability and Social Tipping Points: Scenarios for Climate Migration
Migration in rural Ethiopia – How research can help make vulnerable population visible

Publications

Sterly, H., Borderon, M., Sakdapolrak, P., Adger, W. N., Ayanlade, A., Bah, A., Blocher, J., Blondin, S., Boly, S., Brochier, T., Brüning, L., Bunchuay-Peth, S. A., O'Byrne, D., Safra de Campos, R., Codjoe, S. N. A., Debève, F., Detges, A., Franco-Gavonel, M., Hathaway, C., ... Zickgraf, C. (2025). Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world. Global Environmental Change, 90, Article 102953. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102953

Hoffmann, R., Andriano, L., Striessnig, E., Rüttenauer, T., Borderon, M., & Grace, K. (2024). Climate change and population: Demographic perspectives on the 21st century’s defining challenge. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. https://doi.org/10.1553/p-nfjc-z82h

Thongchaithanawut, M., Borderon, M., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2024). Regional evidence of environmental mobility in Southeast Asia: A systematic review of the empirical evidence. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 45(3), 533-562. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12562

Lindegaard, L. S., Webster, N., Sørensen, N. N., & Borderon, M. (2024). Introduction to the special section: unfolding a governance perspective on climate-related mobilities. Climate and Development, 1-10. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2024.2379464

Sakdapolrak, P., Sterly, H., Borderon, M., Bunchuay-Peth, S. A., Naruchaikusol, S., Ober, K., Porst, L., & Rockenbauch, T. (2024). Translocal social resilience dimensions of migration as adaptation to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 121(3), Article e2206185120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206185120

Borderon, M. (2024). Migration, Environmental and Climate Change. In Global Settlement Dynamics: How People Inhabit the World (pp. 187-212). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd..

Weldemariam, L. F., Ayanlade, A., Borderon, M., & Möslinger, K. (2023). Dynamics and factors influencing return migration to Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review. Heliyon, 9(8), Article E18791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18791

Stange, G., Pagogna, R., Sterly, H., Sakdapolrak, P., Borderon, M., Schraven, B., & Serraglio, D. A. (2023). Impeded Migration as Adaptation: COVID-19 and Its Implications for Translocal Strategies of Environmental Risk Management. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 16(1), 157-169. https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0093

Sakdapolrak, P., Borderon, M., & Sterly, H. (2023). The limits of migration as adaptation. A conceptual approach towards the role of immobility, disconnectedness and simultaneous exposure in translocal livelihoods systems. Climate and Development, 16(2), 87-96. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2180318

Ayanlade, A., Oluwaranti, A., Ayanlade , O. S., Borderon, M., Sterly, H., Sakdapolrak, P., Jegede, M. O., Weldemariam, L. F., & Ayinde, A. F. O. (2022). Extreme climate events in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for improving agricultural technology transfer to enhance adaptive capacity. Climate Services, 27, Article 100311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100311

Brazeau, S., Vignolles, C., Krishnamurthy, R. S., Trtanj, J., Haynes, J., Ramage, S., Catry, T., Kotchi, S. O., Borderon, M., Gill, M., Ogden, N. H., Ludwig, A., Aube, G., Semenza, J. C., Trinanes, J., & Davignon, D. (2022). Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities: A Review by Experts. In Earth Observation, Public Health and One Health: Activities, Challenges and Opportunities (pp. 93-103). CABI Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800621183.0003

Borderon, M., Ludwig, A., & Brazeau, S. (2022). Vulnerable Populations. In Earth Observation, Public Health and One Health Activities, Challenges and Opportunities (pp. 66-77). CABI Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800621183.0000

Borderon, M., Best, K., Bailey, K., Hopping, D., Dove, M., & Cervantes de Blois, C. (2021). The risks of invisibilization of populations and places in environment-migration research. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1), Article 314. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00999-0

Borderon, M. (2021). Using longitudinal data to address the migration-environment nexus: the promising path of Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS). Web publication

Sakdapolrak, P., & Borderon, M. (2021). Vulnerabilität und Gesundheit. In R. Schneider-Sliwa, B. Braun, & I. Helbrecht (Eds.), Das Geographische Seminar - Humangeographie (pp. 111-120). Westermann.

Borderon, M., Reboul, L., & Assefa, N. (2021). Making use of disaggregated poverty data to unravel the risk of immobility in a drought-prone area of Ethiopia. Paper presented at Unsettling Development, East Anglia, United Kingdom.

Borderon, M., Reboul, L., Assefa, N., & Doignon, Y. (2021). Using longitudinal disaggregated data to unravel the patterns of (im)mobility in a drought-prone area of Ethiopia. Paper presented at International Population Conference, India.

Borderon, M., & Eliot, E. (2020). Question 12: How come nobody saw this epidemic coming?. Web publication https://covprehension.org/en/2020/04/06/q12.html

Stange, G., Sterly, H., Sakdapolrak, P., Borderon, M., Schraven, B., Serraglio, D. A., & Aleksandrova, M. (2020). Impeded migration as adaptation: COVID-19 and its implications for translocal strategies of environmental risk management. Web publication https://environmentalmigration.iom.int/blogs/impeded-migration-adaptation-covid-19-and-its-implications-translocal-strategies-environmental