Project Profile: Misty
Migration, Transformation and Sustainability
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Neil Adger, University of Exeter, United Kingdom |
| Partners: | Francois Gemenne, University of Liege, Belgium Ed Carr, Clark University, United States Emily Boyd, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Sweden Sam Codjoe, Regional Institute for Population Studies, Ghana Sonja Fransen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ricardo Safra de Campos, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Tasneem Siddiqui, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Hein de Haas, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Domingos Macucule, Eduardo Mondlane University, Sweden Anita Fábos, Clark University, United States Mumuni Abu, University of Ghana, Ghana |
| Sponsors: | Wallonia and Brussels Federation, Belgium Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Netherlands Swedish Research Council, Sweden Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom National Science Foundation, United States International Social Science Council |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Migration, Transformation and Sustainability |
| Full Call Title: | T2S2016 |
| Website: | http://labos.ulg.ac.be/hugo/misty/ |
Why?
| Project Objective: | Theories of transformation explain how societies can shift away from current trajectories of unsustainability given the limitations of governance, missing institutions and economic structures, social norms, and identities. But current models and concepts of transformation fail to systematically account for demographic shifts, notably migration and mobility. This project seeks to comprehensively expand theories of transformation to incorporate contemporary dynamics and challenges of migration and associated demographic shifts. |
| Call Objective: | T2S has two major objectives: To develop understanding of and promote research on transformations to sustainability which are of significant social, economic and policy concern throughout the world and of great relevance to both academics and stakeholders; To build capacity, overcome fragmentation and have a lasting impact on both society and the research landscape by cultivating durable research collaboration across multiple borders, disciplinary boundaries, and with practitioners and societal partners. This includes facilitating the development of new research collaborations with parts of the world which are not often involved in large-scale international research efforts, notably low- and middle-income countries. |
Where?
| Regions: | Africa, Asia, Europe, North America |
| Countries: | Bangladesh, Belgium, Ghana, Mozambique, Netherlands, United States of America (USA) |
When?
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Call Date: | July 6, 2017 |
| Project Award Date: | April 26, 2018 |
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