TY - JOUR

T1 - Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance

T2 - A research agenda

AU - Gottwald, Sarah

AU - Kołodyńska, Iga

AU - Buchecker, Matthias

AU - Di Masso, Andrés

AU - Fagerholm, Nora

AU - Frąckowiak, Maciej

AU - Hakkarainen, Viola

AU - Kajdanek, Katarzyna

AU - Lau, Ursula

AU - Manzo, Lynne C.

AU - Ortiz-Przychodzka, Stefan

AU - Pearson, Jasmine

AU - Quinn, Tara

AU - Rogowski, Łukasz

AU - Stedman, Richard

AU - Stewart, William P.

AU - Trąbka, Agnieszka

AU - Williams, Daniel R.

AU - von Wirth, Timo

AU - Zawieska, Jakub

AU - Raymond, Christopher M.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Authors

PY - 2024/6/1

Y1 - 2024/6/1

N2 - Uncertainty and change are increasingly commonplace as communities respond to impacts of social-ecological change including climate change, and dangerous levels of pollution. Given the extent of these crises, new approaches are needed to support responses. Here we identify challenges and discuss insights that the nexus of Senses of place (SoP) and mobilities research offers in navigating such uncertainty. We conducted a two-round Delphi, followed by a workshop, and collaborative writing process with a global network of researchers with expertise in either or both SoP and mobilities research. Participants identified five challenges at the place-mobility nexus that emerge when a social-ecological system is disrupted. We use the 2022 Odra River fish die-off to exemplify the identified challenges: 1) accounting for power dynamics, inequalities and motility; 2) doing justice to more-than human actors; 3) integrating multiple and sometimes nested spatial scales; 4) considering temporalities of place and mobilities, and 5) embracing multisensoriality. To address these challenges, we recommend drawing on diverse methods and knowledge co-creation processes that combine more-than-human perspectives, multisensoriality, and engage in the dynamic relations between places to understand people-place disruptions in the face of socio-spatial precarity. Addressing such knowledge gaps requires stronger collaboration of mobilities and place researchers.

AB - Uncertainty and change are increasingly commonplace as communities respond to impacts of social-ecological change including climate change, and dangerous levels of pollution. Given the extent of these crises, new approaches are needed to support responses. Here we identify challenges and discuss insights that the nexus of Senses of place (SoP) and mobilities research offers in navigating such uncertainty. We conducted a two-round Delphi, followed by a workshop, and collaborative writing process with a global network of researchers with expertise in either or both SoP and mobilities research. Participants identified five challenges at the place-mobility nexus that emerge when a social-ecological system is disrupted. We use the 2022 Odra River fish die-off to exemplify the identified challenges: 1) accounting for power dynamics, inequalities and motility; 2) doing justice to more-than human actors; 3) integrating multiple and sometimes nested spatial scales; 4) considering temporalities of place and mobilities, and 5) embracing multisensoriality. To address these challenges, we recommend drawing on diverse methods and knowledge co-creation processes that combine more-than-human perspectives, multisensoriality, and engage in the dynamic relations between places to understand people-place disruptions in the face of socio-spatial precarity. Addressing such knowledge gaps requires stronger collaboration of mobilities and place researchers.

KW - Ecological catastrophe

KW - Mobilities

KW - Odra river

KW - Research agenda

KW - Senses of place

KW - Social-ecological systems

KW - Ecosystems Research

KW - Environmental planning

KW - Environmental Governance

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/fcab1521-b98e-3f82-94e4-7051534a356d/

U2 - 10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103286

DO - 10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103286

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85192819556

VL - 167

JO - Applied Geography

JF - Applied Geography

SN - 0143-6228

M1 - 103286

ER -