PATH: Equitable Adaptation Pathways for Climate Mobilities
Through PATH: Equitable Adaptation Pathways for Climate Mobilities, we seek to improve climate adaptation strategies by better incorporating the voices of those on the move in a changing climate. Using participatory and arts-based research with partnering communities, we bridge lived experiences to the decision-making approaches and indicators used by policymakers and planners for housing and infrastructure. Our work highlights social and spatial inequality—and supports more inclusive, mobility-sensitive adaptation strategies for the precariously housed.
Work Packages
Narratives of Home
How do precariously housed people understand and build emotional bonds to place?
This work package explores the lived experiences of people in precarious housing situations to uncover how they define, experience, and reimagine “home” under conditions of instability. Through community storytelling and creative methods, it seeks to expand how place and belonging are understood in climate adaptation contexts
Shared Visions of Place
What is a desirable neighbourhood vision that incorporates priorities of the precariously housed?
This work package engages participants in co-creating future-oriented, community-defined visions for inclusive neighborhoods. It supports the development of equitable adaptation pathways by integrating physical, social, economic, and environmental priorities defined by those most affected by housing precarity.
Metrics for Negotiated Resilience
What practices can support more negotiated and deliberative planning pathways?
This work package identifies gaps between current adaptation policy metrics and community realities. It supports the co-creation of alternative indicators that reflect both local priorities and systemic constraints — helping to embed justice, flexibility, and lived experience into formal infrastructure and housing decision-making.
Project Hubs
London
International migrants facing climate and housing pressures in one of the world’s wealthiest cities.
Durban
Flood-displaced residents navigating life in informal settlements.
Sindhupalchok
Rural-to-urban migrants adapting to climate risks and landslides.
Nunavut
Inuit families responding to rising costs of living in their homeland.
Global
Weaving together local insights to inform equitable adaptation globally.