Addressing the challenges of climate-driven community-led resettlement and site expansion: knowledge sharing, storytelling, healing, and collaborative coalition building

Posted on June 11, 2021

Co-authors M.Kalani Souza and Bill Thomas

Published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, "Addressing the challenges of climate-driven community-led resettlement and site expansion: knowledge sharing, storytelling, healing, and collaborative coalition building," co-authored by NDPTC's Mr. M. Kalani Souza and Mr. Bill Thomas of NOAA's Office of Coastal Management, tells the stories of Indigenous community leaders, knowledge-holders, and allied collaborators from Louisiana, Hawai‘i, Alaska, Borikén/Puerto Rico, and the Marshall Islands, sharing their life experiences of the relocation and other adaptive challenges in their homelands and territories, the obstacles posed by the state or regional governments in community adaptation efforts, ideas for transforming the research paradigm from expecting communities to answer scientific questions to having scientists address community priorities, and the healing processes that communities are employing. To read the article, go to https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-021-00695-0