Human Mobility, Global Challenges and Resilience in an Age of Social Stress

PHOENIX studies how Global Changes - including environmental, climate, demographic, consumption, energy and land-use, food and mental health policies, and socio-cultural transformations - impact mobility.

We undertake data modeling of social tipping points by utilizing GIS techniques and synthesizing existing geographical, earth science and longitudinal datasets.

We apply a governance of crisis approach to macro, meso and micro levels to understand how diverse policy areas ranging from sustainable development and disaster risk reduction to health, food, and climate change might be bridged with larger policy frameworks to understand and predict mobility patterns.

By conducting two human-centric case studies, 1) food security and belonging, and 2) cultural survival and resilience, PHOENIX provides new ways of looking at how climate (im-)mobilities and their social tipping points are shaped by context.

Drawing on natural and social sciences, PHOENIX adds to the interdisciplinary diagnostic and prognostic toolbox of Global Change and mobility as well as vulnerability and resilience assessments. PHOENIX utilizes an evidence base to ensure maximum comparative and global impact.

The impact is designed to reach scientific, government and public stakeholders via 1) academic workshops and publications, 2) stake-holder expert panels and policy briefs, and 3) Climate Mobilities and Resilience Platforms. Phoenix will help leaders and vulnerable people to understand, adapt, and thrive.