Dr. Amit Tubi joined the Department of Geography after his post-doctoral training at the University of Toronto (2015-2016). Amit’s main research stream focuses on the relationship between climate change and society, encompassing the institutional, economic and political dimensions linked with these changes. His research examines the factors that shape social groups’ vulnerability to climate change and climate extremes, the manner in which societies adapt to climatic perturbations, the relationship between climate change and cooperation/conflict, climate migration, the effect of psychological factors on adaptation processes, and learning from past society-environment interactions for informing our responses to contemporary environmental changes. Amit’s work in these areas is linked to his research in physical geography. In this field, Amit focuses on synoptic climatology, particularly on the effect of atmospheric circulation patterns on environmental phenomena such as dust outbreaks, extreme temperatures and flash floods.