Research interests
Climate Adaptation; Urban Sustainability; Climate Mobility; Infrastructure Transitions; Urban Political Ecology; Sustainable Development; Green Technology and Innovation; Urban Precarity; Gender, Youth, and Informality; Mixed Methods; Policy Analysis; Global South
Jin-ho Chung
Dr Jin-ho Chung is an interdisciplinary scholar of climate adaptation and urban sustainability. He studies how climate stressors reshape human mobility, infrastructure systems, and sustainability pathways in cities across both Global North and Global South contexts.
As the Principal Investigator of the UKRI-funded CEMENT project (£300k), Dr Chung explores the intersections of climate mobility, urban precarity, and sustainable development through urban political ecology. His research leverages mixed-methods approaches – combining socio-economic data with climate datasets and fieldwork – to provide critical, policy-relevant insights into how cities navigate climate impacts via a lens of informality.
Beyond climate adaptation, his work examines the political economy of green technology and innovation, focusing on how sustainable transitions are mediated through power dynamics, gender, young people, and informal systems in cities.
Dr Chung previously held positions at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR) and UNDP, bridging the gap between academic research and international development practice. He holds an MSc in Environment & Sustainable Development from the Bartlett, UCL, and a PhD in Human Geography from UCL.
Dr Chung teaches across the MPhil in Development Studies, where he currently supervises four MPhil theses. He delivers lectures on Core Foundations, the History and Politics of Development, and Mixed Research Methods, as well as an option course on Climate Questions from the Global South.
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Journal articles and special issues( ) Climate change adaptation in south Asian cities: A scoping review of literature from 2008 to 2022 . Cities 170, 106697( ) Intra-community politics: winners and losers from the community-based adaptation (CBA) projects in northern Ethiopia . Community Development Journal bsaf015( ) Climate mobilities into cities: A systematic review of literature from 2011 – 2020 . Urban Climate 45 101252( ) Who defines community in community-based adaptation: Different perceptions of community between government and citizens in Ethiopia . Climate and Development 15 (2) 122-131
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Working papers
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Other publications( ) Understanding Climate-Related Mobility in Contexts of Urbanization . , United Nations University, Centre for Policy Research