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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Kelsea Best, PhD
Pallavi Banerjee
2 months ago
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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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
https://newbooksnetwork.com/migration-and-displacement-in-a-changing-climate
3 months ago
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Kelsea Best, PhD
Jonathan Gilligan
3 months ago
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
https://newbooksnetwork.com/migration-and-displacement-in-a-changing-climate
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Kelsea Best, PhD
Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)
4 months ago
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...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/climate/articles/10.3389/fclim.2025.1584877/full
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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...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/climate/articles/10.3389/fclim.2025.1584877/full
4 months ago
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Kelsea Best, PhD
Sarah Gonzalez Coffin
5 months ago
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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Kelsea Best, PhD
Robert McLeman
6 months ago
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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"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...
https://cambridgeblog.org/2025/04/migration-and-displacement-in-a-changing-climate/
6 months ago
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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
7 months ago
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Kelsea Best, PhD
Communications Earth & Environment
7 months ago
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...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02177-5
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Kelsea Best, PhD
Jonathan Gilligan
7 months ago
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...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02177-5#citeas
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Kelsea Best, PhD
Jesse M. Keenan
8 months ago
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.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/climate/la-fires-climate-refugees/index.html
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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.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91258483/l-a-s-fires-will-make-the-citys-housing-crisis-even-worse
9 months ago
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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…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212095524004358?dgcid=author
10 months ago
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Kelsea Best, PhD
Jonathan Gilligan
over 1 year ago
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...
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Kelsea Best, PhD
Eviction Lab
almost 2 years ago
“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.
https://grist.org/extreme-weather/renters-hit-the-worst-by-damage-from-hurricanes/
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reposted by
Kelsea Best, PhD
Jonathan Gilligan
almost 2 years ago
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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