Floods are one of the most commonly occurring natural hazard events globally, and present
a significant threat to the UK from climate change. Operating since 2016, Flood Re is an …

Interest in examining climate change adaptation has arisen in many disciplines in the past
two decades; however to date, sociologists have given only sparse attention to the issue …

Decisions about climate change adaptation are informed by technical information, but they
are also shaped by social and political factors and impacted communities. Given the realities …

Societal decarbonization likely requires changes to building standards encouraging
electrification, partly through restricting connections to legacy utilities such as natural gas …

Multilateral deliberations are important sites for structuring political relations between
countries from the Global North and the Global South. While outcomes of deliberations often …

Around the world, governments, industry, and other actors are creating plans to save coasts
from environmental crisis. Louisiana is one prominent example: levees and other measures …

Recent work in urban geography and political ecology has explored the roots of housing
segregation in the United States within governmental polices and racial prejudice within the …

In recent years, credit ratings agencies have formally included metrics of climate and
disaster risk in their municipal bond assessments. Although municipal bond ratings are a …

This dissertation examines the role of commemorative sites and practices in shaping and
contesting uneven coastal development in Plaquemines Parish. It centers the lived …

The environment and climate are in critical condition with climate change and the breaching
of planetary boundaries. Various approaches are being implemented to tackle these issues …