This research brief written for FEMA’s Mitigation Matters program examines how homeowners are adapting to climate hazards in North Carolina, a state with one of the most climate-vulnerable shorelines in the country.
Waiting for Rain: Climate Change and Social Mobility in Rural Colombia
In this article I wrote for ReVista Magazine, I write about the intersection of climate change impacts and social mobility in rural Colombia.
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing Climate Change Adaptation in Daily Life
In this paper co-authored with Raka Sen, we argue that the definition of adaptation should be broadened to include the small, incremental changes made in our daily lives to accommodate the shifting ecologies in which we live. Drawing on critical adaptation research and our own ethnographic fieldwork in the Global South, we define everyday adaptation as the shifted ways a person works, eats, lives and thinks in response to climate realities, rather than the hardening of coastlines or the relocation of vulnerable structures.
Women on the Move in a Changing Climate: A discussion of gender, climate, & mobility
I contributed to this report by UN Women and the Sierra Club on gender, climate, and mobility. In this report I write about women’s adaptive migration during drought in Colombia.