McLeman, Robert

Robert McLeman is a geography professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, a former diplomat, and an award-winning teacher. He specializes in understanding how the natural environment influences the well-being of households and communities. His research investigates historical drought-related migration on the Great Plains, adaptation to climate change in remote and resource-dependent communities, drivers of modern-day settlement abandonment, and the effects of environmental events and conditions in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean on international migration to Canada. In writing t...