Jin-ho Chung

Jin-ho Chung is a political ecologist whose work explores how climate change affects human mobilities and the political economy of livelihoods in the Global South. As an interdisciplinary scholar, he investigates how individuals and families make mobility decisions under climate stress, and how migrants navigate new forms of social and economic precarity in urban destinations. By analysing issues of gender, power, and informality, his research advances new approaches to understanding climate mobilities and development through an urban lens.

His current research, funded by a UKRI ESRC New Investigator Grant, examines how farming households in Ethiopia adapt to recurrent droughts through different forms of mobility, and how the temporal dynamics of these movements reshape rural–urban linkages and the politics of development policymaking. More broadly, he is interested in the intersections of environmental change, inequality, and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

He previously worked as a Researcher in Climate Mobility at the University of Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit (TSU) and as a Research Fellow at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR). Prior to academia, he worked for UNDP Ethiopia and Rift Valley Institute. He holds a PhD in Human Geography from University College London.