Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change

Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change is a guide to successfully integrating science into urban, regional, and coastal planning activities to build truly sustainable communities that can withstand climate change. It calls for a shift in academic researchers’ traditional thinking by working across disciplines to solve complex societal and environmental problems, focusing on the real-world human impacts of climate change, and providing an overview of how science can be used to advocate for institutional change.

Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change appeals to a wide variety of audiences, including university administrators looking to create and sustain interdisciplinary research groups, community and state officials, non-profit and community advocates, and community organizers seeking guidance for generating and growing meaningful, productive relationships with university researchers to support change in their communities.

Focuses on the process of building a successful, active partnership between climate change researchers and climate resilience professionalsProvides case studies of university-community partnerships in building climate resilienceIncludes interviews and contributors from a wide variety of disciplines engaged in climate resilience partnerships

Part I. Discovery 1. Introduction: The Case for Citizen-Engaged Science 2. Planning Theory/Traditions in Urban Planning 3. Resilience is Rawlsian 4. The Origin of the Institute for Sustainable Communities 5. Discoveries & Research 6. Breaking Down Interdisciplinary Walls

Part II. Process for Creating Citizen-Engaged Science 7. The Community in Work 8. Empowering Learners 9. Integrated Impact 10. Ethics of Community-based Research 11. Program Evaluation 12. Conclusion - Lessons and Regrets