Developing local ties in a mobile world: how mobility processes shape sense of place and sustainable management in destination areas

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Globally, coastal communities are being shaped by the ongoing movement of people locally, regionally, and internationally. These communities are made up of people with a range of mobility histories, living alongside each other and developing relationships with their local places. The understanding of the diversity of emotional ties is crucial to understand how people prepare themselves to environmental disruptions. In this empirical study, a survey conducted in the UK, South Africa, and France, we consider how processes of mobility shapes peoples’ place attachment and place meaning in destination areas and we look at how the diversity of place attachment and place meaning relates to flood management options. We identify three (im)mobility lifestyles (the active neophytes, the connected locals, the pragmatic neighbors) that are related to preferences for flood risk management options. Here we show that the three groupings of attachment and meanings reflect particular orientations in relationship with the local area that can have implications for pro-environmental flood risk management options.

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