Jan Freihardt

Biographic Data

ID6284963
NAMEJan Freihardt
GIVEN NAMESJan
FAMILY NAMEFreihardt
SIGNATUREFREIHARDT J
AFFILIATIONSETH Zurich
ORCID0000-0003-2096-0335
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Micro-mobilities

    Open AccessJan FreihardtARTICLEClimate and Development2026

    Where does mobility begin? Environmental changes often induce small-scale movements that typically fall through the cracks of most conceptual and methodological discussions of environmental mobility. This study examines such “micro-mobilities” – frequent, short-range household shifts that remain largely invisible in conventional migration statistics yet constitute a crucial adaptive coping strategy. Empirically, I investigate the micro-mobilities…

  • More research needed on people’s responses to air quality data

    Open AccessCamille Fournier de Laurière, Jan Freihardt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

  • Environmental change and migration aspirations

    Open AccessLukas Rudolph, Vally Koubi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2025Cited by: 2References: 14

    1,594 surveyed households along Bangladesh’s Jamuna River, many facing flood and erosion impacts. • Riverbank erosion affectedness raises migration aspirations by 15 percentage points. • Erosion-affected household heads mainly aspire permanent migration, to rural areas. • Flood affectedness has no effect on migration aspirations six months after the event. The argument that environmental stress is an important driver of migration has gained renew…

  • Environmental shocks and migration among a climate-vulnerable population in Bangladesh

    Open AccessJan FreihardtARTICLEPopulation and Environment2025References: 80

    Various studies predict large migration flows due to climatic and other environmental changes, yet the ex post empirical evidence for such migration is inconclusive. To examine the causal link between environmental changes and migration for a population residing along the Jamuna River in Bangladesh, an area heavily affected by floods and riverbank erosion, I relate the respondents’ self-reported affectedness by environmental changes, their migrat…

  • Choosing to protect

    Open AccessJan Freihardt, Mark T Buntaine et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Policy makers worldwide face tough choices over how to prioritize public funding for adaptation to climate change. One particularly difficult choice is whether to opt for policies that promote relocation away from flood risks or infrastructure investments that protect against flooding. Local communities commonly prefer protective infrastructure, but it is less obvious that the general public will support this approach due to the growing costs. We…

  • Framing effects in disaster risk communication

    Open AccessJan Freihardt, Romain BuchsARTICLEEnvironmental Hazards2023References: 8

    Governments have the duty to protect their citizens and to prevent natural hazards from turning into disasters. Therefore, they need to communicate effectively about disaster risk to potentially affected populations. We conducted three online survey experiments among United States residents (total N = 1673) to investigate how satellite images combined with information on past events of coastal erosion affect potential framing effects inherent to …

  • Forks in the road

    Open AccessBarb Pearce, Irina Dallo et al.ARTICLEGAIA - Ecological Perspectives…2022

    Much of the knowledge regarding “what works” in creating stakeholder events remains tacit. This article describes the concept of critical design moments (CDMs) as a guide for designing context-sensitive and inclusive stakeholder interactions. The approach makes often implicit processes explicit. It is rooted in the experiences of coordinating and participating in a transdisciplinary winter school in a village in Switzerland.While the importance o…