Despite growing interest in the relationship between human mobility and environmental variability and change in recent years, there is relatively little understanding of the role of human agency within this nexus. This paper helps to address this knowledge gap by illuminating the role of perception, action and decision-making in the everyday. Using an innovative walking methodology, it presents an empirical case study of regularised farmers’ movements in and out of a floodplain during the rainy season in central Mozambique to show how people’s day-to-day routes are continuously reproduced through meaningful encounters and engagements with physical obstacles and other people. The paper demonstrates how a concern with everyday mobility highlights people’s day-to-day capacities to respond to environmental variability and change while also drawing attention to the challenges associated with the gradual accumulation of risk in mobile, rural livelihoods.

尽管近年来人们对人类流动性与环境变异性和变化之间关系的兴趣日益浓厚，但对于人类机构在这种关系中的作用却知之甚少。本文通过阐明感知，行动和决策在日常工作中的作用来帮助解决这一知识鸿沟。它使用创新的步行方法，提供了莫桑比克中部雨季正规农民进出洪泛区的运动的经验案例研究，以展示人们如何通过有意义的接触和与身体的接触不断地再现人们的日常路线障碍和其他人。