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Giovanni Bettini is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, serving as Associate Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) and Geography and Environment Pathway Lead for the ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre. His interdisciplinary work bridges Political Geography, Environmental Humanities, and Critical Development Studies with a focus on climate-environmental governance.
His research centers on three interconnected domains: human migration amid climate change, Anthropocene politics and green movements, and digital environmental governance. He investigates how planetary-scale environmental shifts generate new governance modes, subjectivities, and resistance forms, with particular emphasis on digital technologies' role in reshaping adaptation, resilience, and justice. Current projects include the Leverhulme-funded 'Digital Climate Futures', examining algorithmic climate adaptation through decolonial and justice lenses.
Bettini supervises PhD candidates including Elisabeth Olsen in Critical Geographies, with expertise in qualitative studies on climate migration and digital governance. His grant leadership spans Horizon2020 CLISEL and COST Action IS1101 on climate migration. Teaching includes Perspectives on Society and Environment (convener), Climate and Society, and Geography of the Majority World.
Active in Lancaster's Critical Geographies and Human Geography research groups, he contributes to 'Improving Global Stewardship' initiatives and understanding planetary change through the lens of environmental justice and decolonial theory.
