At What Point Managed Retreat?: Habitability and Mobility in an Era of Climate Change
- Lead PI: Dr. Radley M. Horton , Dr. Alexander de Sherbinin
- June 2023 - June 2023
- Inactive
- Global
- Project Type: Outreach
DESCRIPTION:
Building on the success of the 2019 and 2021 conferences on Managed Retreat, the Columbia Climate School held At What Point Managed Retreat?: Habitability and Mobility in an Era of Climate Change from June 20-23, 2023, at Columbia University. The conference spanned 3.5 days and featured close to 500 in person attendees and over 100 remote attendees.
Key themes of the conference included:
- Deep engagement by the public, private and nonprofit sectors, together with academics, scientists, and community representatives
- A major emphasis on issues of environmental justice
- Advancing the research agenda around managed retreat in an Interdisciplinary, solutions-oriented way.
- Facilitating networking and discussion among many types of stakeholders, and bridge the information gap between academics, practitioners, and affected communities; and
- Developing concrete solutions and best practices around a complex climate adaptation issue.