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Collectively Adapting to Sea-Level Rise Through Disaster Response, Commons Management, and Social Mobilization

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Collaborative adaptation; Collective climate adaptation; Commons-based adaptation; Coordinated adaptation

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Collective adaptation refers to actions taken together by communities, government organizations, and/or nongovernment organizations (NGOs) to prepare for the impacts of climate change. There are at least three types of community-led collective adaptation. Collective disaster response incorporates diverse actions that communities take to prepare for, respond to, and recover from extreme events associated with climate change. Collective adaptation planning involves communities working together to identify how they would like to prepare for the changes that climate change will have on their local built, natural and social environments, and lobbying governments to bring those plans to fruition. This form of collective adaptation can also be considered to be a form of social mobilization. Collective implementation of climate adaptation involves communities providing...

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  1. School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, The University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Sonia Graham

  2. Institut de Ciència I Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Sonia Graham

  3. University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia

    Eleanor Malbon

  4. School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, The University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Zoran Balukoski

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Graham, S., Malbon, E., Balukoski, Z. (2022). Collectively Adapting to Sea-Level Rise Through Disaster Response, Commons Management, and Social Mobilization. In: Brears, R.C. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3_317

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