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 professionals- Provides case studies of university-community partnerships in building climate resilience- Includes interviews and contributors from a wide variety of disciplines engaged in climate resilience partnerships