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Kelsea Best, PhD

@kelseabest.bsky.social
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Climate justice, coupled human-natural systems, equitable climate adaptation 🏳️‍🌈 (she, her, hers)

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Migration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Are poorer communities more likely to be displaced by #climatechange? Not necessarily @kelseabest.bsky.social breaks down the relationship between financial resources and migration on our podcast, Changing Climate, Changing Migration
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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
New podcast episode is up! I spoke with @kelseabest.bsky.social about whether someone's ability to migrate away from climate hazards is just a function of their personal wealth. The answer: Sometimes, but not necessarily mpichangingclimatechangingmigration.podbean.com/e/economics-...
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Trapped by Climate Change: The Economics of Staying or Leaving | Changing Climate, Changing Migration
It is not guaranteed that someone harmed by a natural disaster or other environmental change will leave their home. A complicated web of factors affects whether climate-vulnerable individuals want to—...
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Kelsea Best, PhD @kelseabest.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
As the federal government deprioritizes climate action, local governments must grapple with questions of resilience. Here, we outline four challenge areas and priorities for bridging community resilience and local planning for climate justice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Bridging community resilience and local planning for climate justice
As the effects of climate change increase, and as the federal government deprioritizes climate action, local governments must grapple with the complex…
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Tagging experts and key figures in the field, I know, in case you can connect Chetna to anyone, she can interview: @jgilligan.org @farhanasultana.com @kelseabest.bsky.social @helenkopnina.bsky.social ‪@earth-andrew.bsky.social‬
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Kelsea Best, PhD @kelseabest.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
It was so fun to talk about our book "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" with Hannah! You can listen to the conversation here. @universitypress.cambridge.org @rmcleman.bsky.social @kayly.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/migration-an...
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Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman, "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 08/07/2025
People interested in #ClimateChange and #Migration should listen to this excellent podcast interview with @kelseabest.bsky.social about her new book, _Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate_. newbooksnetwork.com/migration-an...
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Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman, "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES) @brown-ibes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
IBES affiliate @jenniferhadden.bsky.social, an associate prof at @watsoninstitute.bsky.social, is coauthor of "When boundaries are blurred: infrastructure needs in support of the climate displaced." Read the new article in Frontiers in Climate ⤵️
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Frontiers | When boundaries are blurred: infrastructure needs in support of the climate displaced
Interactions between climate change and human displacement are complex, yet it is clear that climate change has and will continue to alter patterns of mobili...
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Kelsea Best, PhD @kelseabest.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
In this new paper, we discuss how engineers can better support people displaced by the effects of climate change. Check it out! www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...
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Frontiers | When boundaries are blurred: infrastructure needs in support of the climate displaced
Interactions between climate change and human displacement are complex, yet it is clear that climate change has and will continue to alter patterns of mobili...
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Sarah Gonzalez Coffin, PhD @sgonzalezcoffin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The first book on my summer reading list has arrived! 📚💡Looking forward to learning from @kelseabest.bsky.social and colleagues about the latest research on how climate change interacts with population dynamics. #Research #ReadingList
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Robert McLeman @rmcleman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Will you be teaching a course on #climatemigration? Pls consider adopting new book by @kelseabest.bsky.social, Kayly Ober & me, ‘Migration in a changing climate’, pub’s by Cambridge. See image for description & 20% discount code.
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Kelsea Best, PhD @kelseabest.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"In a rapidly changing climate and a world with more people on the move, we collectively need to rethink how we view migration and adjust our policies and practices accordingly." cambridgeblog.org/2025/04/migr...
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“Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate” - Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press
Each year, more than 20 million people on average are displaced by floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts, and that number will increase in coming decades as the impacts of climate change strengt...
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Kelsea Best, PhD @kelseabest.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
New book "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" with the brilliant @rmcleman.bsky.social and Kayly Ober out in April and available for preorder! @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 13/03/2025
Levels of inequality within a community are important contributors to community-level patterns of migration in Bangladesh. @kelseabest.bsky.social 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Economic inequality is a crucial determinant of observed patterns of environmental migration - Communications Earth & Environment
Levels of inequality within a community are important contributors to community-level patterns of migration, according simulations with an agent-based model of the influence of environmental shocks, l...
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 12/03/2025
Delighted to share a new publication, with the amazing @kelseabest.bsky.social & Bishawjit Mallick, using pattern-oriented agent-based modeling to explore the importance of economic inequality in determining patterns of environmentally-driven migration in Bangladesh. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Economic inequality is a crucial determinant of observed patterns of environmental migration - Communications Earth & Environment
Levels of inequality within a community are important contributors to community-level patterns of migration, according simulations with an agent-based model of the influence of environmental shocks, l...
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Jesse M. Keenan @jessemkeenan.com · 21/01/2025
See my commentary @cnn.com in re complexity of human mobility in the face of extreme events. #climatechange #people #decisions #housing #mobility w/commentary from @kelseabest.bsky.social Alex de Sheribinin from @columbiaclimate.bsky.social @climatehuman.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/c...
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Extreme weather events like the LA wildfires are creating climate refugees. Where do they go? | CNN
As extreme weather gets worse, people in high-risk areas are confronting the reality that it’s getting harder and to insulate themselves from disaster.
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Kelsea Best, PhD @kelseabest.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The devastating LA fires will undoubtedly have widespread effects on housing availability and affordability www.fastcompany.com/91258483/l-a...
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L.A.'s fires will make the city's housing crisis even worse
L.A. was already struggling to build housing. Now it needs more.
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Kelsea Best, PhD @kelseabest.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I'm very happy to share this new paper, led by the brilliant undergraduate Mia Matteucci, on "Multi-stakeholder perspectives on climate gentrification in Miami-Dade, Florida" :) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Multi-stakeholder perspectives on climate gentrification in Miami-Dade, Florida
Climate gentrification (CG) considers the complex ways that climate change can interact with housing affordability, development, and social inequity t…
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 12/05/2024
I will give a shout-out to my brilliant former student @kelseabest.bsky.social who's done a lot of good work quantfying inequities in vulnerability and adaptaiton along the Atlantic coast. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Disadvantaged populations, meaning those that have the fewest resources and least ability to adapt and respond, will experience the most severe effects of climate change. Such disadvantaged groups often include racial minorities, older populations, relatively low-income populations, and renters. An estimated 20 million coastal residents in the U.S. will be at risk of inundation due to sea level rise (SLR) and/or storm surges by 2030, yet there is less evidence of how multiple and cascading burdens of SLR that are beyond direct inundation will affect disadvantaged populations. We argue that concentrating solely on adaptation to the inundation effects of SLR neglects more complex burdens of SLR, such as the isolation of communities and individuals from essential services, that may interact with social vulnerability to reinforce structures of inequality.
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
“Both eviction filings and threats of eviction went up in the wake of hurricanes, which could be fueling housing instability and displacement in the wake of disasters.“ via @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/extreme-weat... @kelseabest.bsky.social
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Why tenants struggle more in the wake of hurricanes
New research shows how renters are more uniquely vulnerable to hurricanes than their homeowner counterparts.
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 21/11/2023
Climate folks: welcome Dr. Kelsea Best @kelseabest.bsky.social to Bluesky. Kelsea does very exciting work on climate justice and equitable adaptation, and is well worth following.
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