Building Equitable Climate Adaptation Partnerships in the US Caribbean

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-15726-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 147 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

This book assesses the opportunities and outcomes for shared-action learning, participatory approaches, and university-community partnerships to support climate adaptation and climate justice in the US Caribbean. The authors explore the ways that project-based pedagogies and collaborative research can contribute not only to building climate resilience and social infrastructures, but more broadly to generating new modes of experimental climate creativity knowledge sharing. They investigate the potential in leveraging federal research funding for climate resilience, for experimenting with co-production of knowledge and the move towards greater climate justice through processes of creative collaboration. With a focus on Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, this book seeks to offer insights on how academic researchers can engage in ethical collaborations that will support climate vulnerable communities exercise self-determination, equitable climate adaptation, and place-keeping – rather than displacement.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Molinari, Sarah

Sheller, Mimi

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction (Mimi Sheller and Sarah Molinari).- Chapter 2.The Caribbean Collaborative Action Network: Community-Based Climate Action in the US Caribbean (Sarah Molinari and Mimi Sheller).- Chapter 3. Supporting Social Infrastructure in Puerto Rico through Shared Action Learning (John-Michael Davis and Scott Jiusto).- Chapter 4. Community Climate Adaptation in the U.S. Virgin Islands (Sol Giesso, Jonathan Chang, and Sarah Strauss).- Chapter 5. The Limits to Adaptation: Reflections from VCAPS Exercises in Two Southern Coastal Communities in Puerto Rico (Sarah Molinari and Seth Tuler).- Chapter 6. Filming Community Autogestión: Insights from a Participatory Video Project (Bárbara López-González).

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Molinari is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA. Sarah’s research examines the politics and lived experiences of the intersecting climate and economic crises in Puerto Rico and the greater Caribbean region. She is a co-founder of the Puerto Rico Syllabus, a digital resource for teaching and learning about Puerto Rico’s debt crisis.

Mimi Sheller is the Inaugural Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA. An interdisciplinary scholar with contributions in Caribbean Studies and mobilities research, her recent books include (2020) and (2018).