Managing Natural Hazards and Climate Risks in Elections in the Asia-Pacific
Webinar co-hosted by Griffith University, ERRN QLD, IDEA International and the Electoral Regulation Research Network
Elections are increasingly being shaped not only by political forces, but by floods, fires and extreme weather. A new report from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), Managing Natural Hazards and Climate Risks in Elections, reveals that at least 94 elections and referendums across 52 countries have been disrupted by natural hazards over the past two decades. In this presentation, we show how natural hazards and climate risks in elections have affected elections in Australia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Speakers
- Saket Ambarkhane has worked as a consultant with Election Commission of India (ECI) and as a Programme Manager at IIIDEM (India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management) for over seven years. He has also worked as Programme Officer for Electoral Support at International IDEA’s office in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. Ambarkhane has 12 years’ experience in the private, development and public sectors in total, including work on democratic governance and electoral management, research and documentation, capacity building, development consulting and media. He holds a Masters degree in International Studies from University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
- Yogi Setya Permana is a researcher at the Research Centre for Politics, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN-Indonesia). He holds a PhD from Leiden University. His research focuses on environmental governance, climate adaptation, and local politics, particularly on how the political economy of natural resources and state-society relations impact environmental crises, patterns of conflict, resilience, and everyday political dynamics.
- Telibert Laoc first observed elections in 1994 in South Africa with the United Nations, during the historic election that brought Nelson Mandela to the presidency. Since then, he has observed elections in many countries in his capacity as executive director of the Philippines’ National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL), and through work with the United Nations and the Washington, D.C.-based National Democratic Institute. Drawing on decades of election work in the Philippines and internationally, and as a founding trustee of the Democratic Insights Group, International IDEA invited him to write this piece on heat wave and elections in the Philippines with co-authors Lourisze Cayle Juliana Deseo and Yaelim Jeung.
Commentators
- Tom Rogers, former Australian Electoral Commissioner
- Weena Gera, University of the Philippines Cebu
Chair
- Ferran Martinez i Coma is Professor in the School of Government and International Relations. He is a current ARC Future Fellow. His current research specialises in elections, electoral integrity, comparative politics, political parties and electoral behaviour and has published in leading journals in the discipline.