Mobilities

Mobilities, our conceptual lense

We examine the multiple and uneven relations between environmental mobilities and governance. A mobilities lens helps to understand and capture environmental issues that move, change form, and fluctuate and whose governance is not (yet) institutionalized.

We develop a conceptual and methodological approach for understanding environmental mobilities, via which we study (the implications of) environmental change and its governance from the perspective of movement. We pay particular attention to the equitability and sustainability of the practices, technologies and regimes that govern environmental mobilities, such as migration, tourism and plastic flows.

Questions we ask

How do environmental mobilities shape what gets governed, how, and by whom, and what are the socio-political and environmental implications?

What practices, technologies or governance regimes shape these environmental mobilities and with what impact on those involved?