Simon Bunchuay-Peth

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Annika Kühn, Teresa Erbach, Hilke Marit Berger & Haratua Zosran (2026) entitled: 'Playful Mapping for Climate Adaptation: Two Case Studies From Jakarta's Coast' with an orange banner at the top. While playful methods are increasingly used in participatory mapping processes, their strategic value, particularly in relation to climate adaptation, remains underexamined. This paper explores the potential and limitations of playful mapping approaches in climate adaptation, focusing on two qualitative case studies in Jakarta's flood-prone Kampung Akuarium: memory mapping with children and speculative gameplay with residents and government officials. Both approaches are examined in terms of their methodological strengths and weaknesses as well as their impact and scalability. The findings show that playful and participatory mapping tools open spaces for storytelling, imagination and collective reflection. They make visible immaterial cultural heritage and emotional aspects often excluded from technocratic planning, allowing participants to articulate the cultural dimensions of urban transformation. Yet, these insights often remain symbolic without pathways for institutional uptake. The paper argues that the context-specific potentials and the downsides of playful methods need to be evaluated carefully. Where their contribution to adaptation processes outweighs their resource-intensiveness, they should be treated not only as experiential formats but as strategic instruments embedded in long-term, co-creative research infrastructures.

🌊New in Geo🌊

'Playful mapping for climate adaptation: Two case studies from Jakarta's coast' by Annika Kühn et al.

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Mapping Climate Change Perceptions'.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

A graphical abstract for a paper in Geo: Geography and Environment. It shows a wheel graphic with 'Adaptive mobile cultures' in the centre, and different sections around it: Environmental mobilities, Beyond human, Adaptive livelihoods, and Indigenous knowledge. From each of these stems 'adaptive frictions' such as development-induced immobility, epistemic dominance of Western scientific paradigms, and sedentary adaptation approaches. These are explored in the paper.

🌍New in Geo!🌍

'Cultural heritage in motion: Adaptive mobile cultures of (semi)nomadic Indigenous people in changing climates' by Nuhu Adeiza Ismail et al.

This paper draws on empirical research carried out in Thailand, Ethiopia and Senegal.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Climate adaptation & governance are still stuck in sedentary thinking, neglecting mobility and Indigenous expertise. We need a rethinking:

👉https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/geo2.70054

#ClimateAdaptation #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimateMobility #MobilityJustice #LossAndDamage

Ebenfalls ein frohes Weihnachten und danke für die wichtige Arbeit die all unsere Journalistinnen und Medienmacher leisten besonders in diesen Zeiten.

Happy to share my latest #DataViz on the use of selected terms in the field of Climate (Im) Mobilities together with with @gregory-manni.bsky.social.

#SunBurstDiagramm #CliMoHub #ClimateMigration

The Call for Papers for the next ECMN conference #ECMN26 is now open. At all working in Human Mobility in the Conext of Environmental and Climate Change ths conferenc is a must.

More info here: www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn26-call-...

Das Innenministerium veröffentlicht seine monatliche Asyl-Statistik IMMER an einem Sonntag. Auch heute wieder.
Könnte das damit zu tun haben, dass die Redaktionen an Sonntagen extrem dünn besetzt und froh über „Geschichten“ sind und wenig Kapazität haben, um Zahlen auch nachzurecherchiere? 🤔

Climate-Related Planned Relocation In Alaska – Climate Mobilities Hub | University Of Vienna Planned relocation in Arctic Alaska is a growing focus within mobilities research, primarily driven by the increasing urgency of climate-related displacement. Within this field, there is an emphasis o...

How are Arctic Alaska communities responding to climate change?

Our new #ECM Case Study by Georgia Mosey, synthesises research on climate-related planned relocation. Despite growing qualitative work, Indigenous knowledge remains unseen in planning and policy.

www.climohub.org/project/clim...

Bar chart showing estimates of remaining carbon dioxide budgets that give a 50% likelihood of staying below each temperature level, relative to pre-industrial levels. A baseline label shows global emissions in 2025 at 42 gigatonnes (Gt) per year. Three vertical bars show remaining CO2 budgets: stay below 1.5°C — 170 Gt, labeled as 4 years of current emissions, with a note that if emissions stay at 2025 levels the 1.5°C budget will be exhausted within 4 years; stay below 1.7°C — 525 Gt, labeled as 12.5 years of current emissions; stay below 2°C — 1055 Gt, labeled as 25 years of current emissions, with an annotation saying that by 2050 we will have exhausted the 2°C budget unless emissions are reduced now. Footer note states these estimates have uncertainty and depend on changes in non-CO2 greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide. Data sources listed as IPCC, Forster et al. (2025) and Global Carbon Project (2025). License CC BY.

How much CO₂ can the world emit while limiting global temperature rise?

New book out: Climate Mobility Justice.
It examines how climate change and human (im)mobilities are narrated, governed, and contested across media, policy, art, and activism it calls for justice-centered, care-based alternatives.

More info: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🌍 Climate (Im)Mobility at #COP30: migration, displacement & the right to stay are in focus across pavilions & side events.

Check key sessions, livestreams & pavilions 👇
🔗 seors.unfccc.int/reports/even...

Update: Theories In Climate Migration Research – Climate Mobilities Hub | University Of Vienna We have created a new visualisation as part of an ongoing series that offers insights into the main conceptual themes and approaches discussed in our research field. The visualisation highlights the k...

Which theoretical perspectives and analytical lenses are currently shaping #climateMobilities research?

We have created a new visualisation as part of an ongoing series that offers insights into the main conceptual themes and approaches discussed in our research field. #ECMN #HMCCC

🌍 Save the Date! 🌍
The 4th Annual ECMN Conference will take place 23–26 June 2026 at Wageningen University & Research, 🇳🇱 hosted by the Environmental Policy Group.

Stay tuned for the theme & call for papers!
#ECMN26 #ClimateMobilities #MigrationResearch

www.climatemobilities.network

Armin Wolf zeigt "X" bei Staatsanwaltschaft wegen Begünstigung von Hassposter an Elon Musks US-Plattform lehnte Löschung und Herausgabe von Userdaten ab. Nun bemüht der ORF-Anchor mit Medienanwältin Maria Windhager die Staatsanwaltschaft

X/Twitter ignoriert beharrlich Gesetze in Ö. und in der EU und zeigt den Behörden einfach den Mittelfinger.
Medienanwältin @windhager.bsky.social hatte da jetzt eine Idee. Mal sehen, was daraus wird.

America’s Retreat From Aid Is Devastating Somalia’s Health System Hunger and the diseases that stalk small children have surged in Somalia after the U.S. slashed its aid to the country.

When the Trump administration dismantled USAID and ended vast swaths of foreign assistance to the world’s poorest countries, much of the food aid and health care for children across Somalia were abruptly cut off. Now more children are arriving at emergency centers sicker and thinner than ever.

Klimakipppunkte: „Lass mich raten: Wir werden alle sterben?“ Mit dem Ende der Korallenriffe hat die Erde den ersten Klimakipppunkt erreicht. Na gut, haben halt ein paar Schnorchler nichts mehr zum Schauen. Oder?

Klimakipppunkte drohen nicht mehr nur, die ersten wurden bereits erreicht. Unter anderem das Absterben von Korallenriffen. Die gute Nachricht: Forscher:innen sehen auch positive Kipppunkte. Gerlinde Pölsler seziert den neuen Global Tipping Points Report im #FALTERnatur. ↓

This Year’s Hurricanes Keep Turning Away From the East Coast Why?

In a typical Atlantic hurricane season, at least three storms would have already made landfall in the U.S.

But with 12 named storms so far this year — four of them hurricanes — the only one to make landfall was Tropical Storm Chantal. Here's why.

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?

Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.

To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

In den USA lügt nicht nur der Präsident habituell, sondern auch die offizielle Kommunikationsabteilung des Weißen Hauses:

U.S. Enters 15th Day of Late-Night Jokes About Government Shutdown Jimmy Kimmel told his viewers that in 2018, “Trump shut the government down until they brought back the McRib or something.”

Here's a look at some of the highlights worth watching from late-night TV.

A cartoon by Ellie Black, from 2020. #NewYorkerCartoons

We’ve added 100+ new case studies to the #CliMoHub Case Study Locator — now 895 climate-migration & (im)mobilities cases screened globally
We’ve also completed country summaries tracing research evolution, key findings & knowledge gaps.
Explore them here 👉 www.climohub.org/case-studies...

We’ve added 100+ new entries to the Case Study Locator 🌍—now 895 screened studies on climate-related migration & (im)mobilities worldwide.

📌 Country summaries also launched: tracing research trends, key findings & gaps.

Explore 👉https://www.climohub.org/case-studies-on-climate-migration/
#CliMoHub

🌱✨ New in Environmental Research Letters: “Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable” 🌍🧭

📖This Perspective offers 5 recommendations for habitability research, grounded in self-determination and human dignity as foundations for climate justice.

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Environmental Gentrification And Displacement Displacements in the name of sustainability and the context of environmental gentrification are happeningen more often that one might think.

New on #CliMoHub: Communities are pushing back against #GreenGentrification and #Displacement. Henri Oster’s scoping review shows how strong local networks + coalitions can counter displacement and advance #EnvironmentalJustice.

🔗 www.climohub.org/project/gree...

Visualisation: Top Journals Covering Climate Migration – Climate Mobilities Hub | University Of Vienna These visualisations show a ranking of the the top journals covering climate migration based on an analysis of the CliMig Database. Explore more...

Which journals are most central in publishing research on #climateChange and #migration?

This new visualization by @gregory-manni.bsky.social highlights the top 15 journals shaping the field based on the #CliMig database.

Explore the full overview here 👉 www.climohub.org/project/top-...

#CliMoHub

Energy Transition Mining And Displacements In Congo (DRC) – Climate Mobilities Hub | University Of Vienna The true cost of sustainability: As demand for electric vehicles and renewable energy soars, the rush for critical minerals like cobalt is displacing communities in the Democratic Republic of the Cong...

What if the path to clean energy comes at the cost of people’s homes? 🏞️

Our new scoping review by Marlena Niedl explores how the rush for cobalt, copper & other critical minerals in the DRC is driving displacement—and why energy transition must also mean justice.

www.climohub.org/project/ener...

New publication!
"Intersektionalität, Gender und Migration im Zeichen des Klimawandels" (Bunchuay-Peth & Berger, 2025).

We show how #climateChange, #migration & social contexts intersect—highlighting marginalized voices & why intersectional policies matter.

👉 elibrary.utb.de/doi/abs/10.5...

#PhD
#JobPosting
dear community 🌍 we are happy to announce a PhD position opening with our Research Group! If you are interested in exploring the nexus of climate mobilities and future making, this could be the opportunity for you!
Requirements & how to apply here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

#WindowFriday with a view of the Gulf of Thailand.
It is so nice to be back in this country, which has inspired much of my research.
Today, we spoke with migrant workers from Myanmar, who are increasingly establishing local roots in #Thailand due to the protracted conflict in #Myanmar.