Tuesday, June 22

Deborah Morris, Columbia University GSAPP

Karen Blondel, Public Housing Civic Association

David Todd Lawrence, University of St. Thomas

Thaddeus Pawlowski, Columbia University - Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes

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The Power of Frontline Leaders to Shape Our Future

Kristin Marcell, Climigration Network

Harriet Festing, The Anthropocene Alliance

 

The Long Goodbye on a Disappearing, Ancestral Island: A Just Retreat from Isle de Jean Charles

Jessica Simms, State of Louisiana, Office of Community Development

Chris Brunet, Isle de Jean Charles resident

Pamela Jenkins, University of New Orleans

Helen Waller, Tulane University

 

Envisioning a Resilient Oregon Coast: Co-developing alternative futures for adaptation planning and decision-making,

Peter Ruggiero, Jenna Tilt, Steven Dundas, John Bolte, Dan Cox, Katherine Stanton, Meredith Leung, Dylan Sanderson, Amila Hadziomerspahic (all: Oregon State University)

 

Social and Physical Dimensions of Climate Resiliency: A Case Study of Environmental Justice in the Bronx River Watershed

Maggie Scott-Greenfield, Bronx River Alliance

Christian Murphy, Bronx River Alliance

Dariella Rodriguez, The Point CDC

 

Community Response to Local Coastal Resilience Programs: Results of Household Survey in the New York Metropolitan Region

William Solecki, Hunter College - City University of New York

Parisa Setayesh, City University of New York

 

Building Community Consensus for Flood Risk Adaptation

Bennett Brooks, Consensus Building Institute

Nathan Mitchell, Piermont Waterfront Resilience Commission

Max Maurman, Beth Tellman, and Dan Osgood, Columbia University

Awol Adem, World Food Programme Ethiopia

Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)

Mathieu Dubreuil, World Food Programme

Birgit Mueller, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Leigh Johnson, University of Oregon

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Buy-In Community Planning, Inc.: Tools for a Better Buyout

Kelly Leilani Main, Buy-In Community Planning

Osamu Kumasaka, Buy-In Community Planning

Risa Hiser, Buy-In Community Planning

 

Drivers of Variations in U.S. Floodplain Buyout Administration and Implications for Equity and Participant Outcomes

A.R. Siders, University of Delaware

Logan Gerber-Chavez, Biden School of Public Policy, University of Delaware

Adam Andresen, Biden School of Public Policy, University of Delaware

 

Local Political Decision Making about Property Buyouts: Evidence from a Survey of US City and County Elected Officials

Megan Mullin, Duke University

 

Managed Retreat: Examining Homeowners Relocation within the NY Rising Buyout and Acquisition Program

Alex Pennington, Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery

 

Relocation outcomes for participants in U.S. property buyouts: a systematic, nationwide analysis, Caroline Kraan, University of Miami

Erica Johnston, Stanford University

Miyuki Hino, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A.R. Siders, University of Delaware

Katharine Mach, University of Miami

 

State and Local Buyout Programs – What Lessons on Equity and Ecological Restoration for Future Floodplain Management?

Linda Shi, Cornell University

Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner, Cornell University

Anjali Fisher, Cornell University

Jamie Vanucchi, Cornell University

Chris Shepard, The Nature Conservancy

Mali'o Kodis, The Nature Conservancy

Amelia Greiner Safi, Cornell University

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Art: The Missing Link

Yky, Artist

 

Communicating Climate Change and Human Mobility

Jessica Olson, Sierra Club

Kayly Ober, Refugees International

 

Critical Perspectives on Managed Retreat at the Intersection of Psychology & Environmental Justice

Melissa Tier, Princeton University

Sara Constantino, Princeton University

Elisabeth Krueger, Princeton University

 

Empowering Climigration: a new communications playbook co-created with lived experience experts, Hannah Teicher, Climigration Network

Kristen Marcell, Consensus Building Institute

 

Underwater HOA: Using socially engaged art to problem-solve in an imperiled, polarized and imperfect world

Xavier Cortada, University of Miami Department of Art and Art History

Adam Roberti, Cortada Socially Engaged Art Lab & Studio (CSEALS)

Ryan Deering, Cortada Socially Engaged Art Lab & Studio (CSEALS)

 

Waves of Grief and Anger: Communicating Through the “End of the World” as We Knew It

Susanne Moser, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting

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A spatial analysis of unequal national flood insurance and mitigation benefits in the Carolinas

Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Columbia University / Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Carolynne Hultquist, Columbia University - CIESIN

 

Designing a Funding Framework for the Impacts of Slow-Onset Climate Change -Insights from Recent Experiences with Coastal Retreat

Swenja Surminski, London School of Economics / Grantham Research Institute

Jonathan Boston, Architesh Panda

 

Evidence of Climate Gentrification in Florida’s Rental Market

Marco-Tedasco, Columbia University

Jesse Keenan, Tulane University

Carolynne Hultquist, Columbia University

 

Insuring our Future: Resilient Buildings and Insurance

Monika Serrano, Turner Construction

Michael Gudas, Liberty Mutual

Glenn Pine, Turner Surety and Insurance Brokerage

 

The Effects of Sea Level Rise on Property Value and Managed Retreat in Honolulu

Nori Tarui, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Makena Coffman, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Quang Loc Lam, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

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Enabling homeowners to adapt to coastal flooding: The case of Rockaway in New York City

Malgosia Madajewicz, Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University

Philip Orton, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ana Fisyak, Rise Rockaway

Michaela Labriole, New York Hall of Science

Judith Hutton, NYSCI

Judah Asimov, Rise Rockaway

 

Inclusive Approaches in Community-Focused Climate Resilience Partnerships

Rupu Gupta, Knology 

 

Incorporating Individual and Household Financial Literacy, Preparedness and Well-Being into Planning for Managed Retreat

Joshua DeVincenzo, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Christopher Tingley, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Earth Institute, Columbia University

 

Managed Retreat, Heritage Justice, and Community Resilience

David Glassberg, UMass Amherst

 

Mediating Retreat: Just Relocation, Collective Ownership, and Spatial Practice at Proyecto ENLACE, Puerto Rico

Lizzie Yarina, MIT

Larisa Ovalles, MIT Urban Risk Lab

Miho Mazereeuw, Department of Architecture, MIT

 

Town Governmental Capacity and Barriers to Adaptation: A case study of the Community Rating System  Jon Nelson, Brown University

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Beyond compound events- extreme weather, conflict and displacement in Somalia

Lisa Thalheimer, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

Moritz Schwarz, University of Oxford/ Institute for New Economic Thinking

Felix Pretis, Department of Economics, University of Victoria

 

Can pre-emptive retreat strategies be practically implemented? Issues and approaches

Judy Lawrence, New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington

Robert Bell, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Hamilton, New Zealand

Sam Olufson, NZ Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington

Rick Kool, NIRAS

Matthew Hardcastle, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Adolf Stroombergen, Infometrics, Wellington, New Zealand

 

Dichotomous or progressive choices: in situ protection and retreat as strategies for climate adaptation, Nora Schwaller, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

Todd BenDor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

Emotions and feelings in Enseada da Baleia's preventive and self-managed relocation 

Giovanna Gini, Queen Mary University of London

 

Prototyping a scenario-based framework for adaptive Managed Retreat of a New Zealand Stormwater and Wastewater Network

Rick Kool, Coastal Engineer

Judy Lawrence, New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington

Martin Drews, Technical University of Denmark

Robert Bell, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Hamilton, New Zealand

 

Shifting landscapes of coastal flood risk: environmental (in)justice of urban change, sea level rise, and differential vulnerability in New York City

Pablo Herreros-Cantis, Urban Systems Lab - The New School

Timon McPhearson, Urban Systems Lab - The New School

Veronica Olivotto, The New School 

Zbigniew Grabowski, Urban Systems Lab - The New School

 

When capacity limits ambition: lessons from flood-related property buyouts in Grand Forks, BC, 

Melissa Le Geyt, University of Waterloo

Brent Doberstein, University of Waterloo

Patricia Cochran, executive director, Alaska Native Science Commission

Robin Bronen, Executive Director, Alaska Institute for Justice

Annauk Olin, MIT

Sarah Aarons, Assistant Professor, University of California 

Eva Burk, Research Assistant, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Susi Moser, PhD, Susanne Moser Research and Consulting, UMass-Amherst, AUME

Sarah Watson, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium

Liz Koslov: Assistant Professor, UCLA

Xiye Bastida: Climate Justice Activist, Re-Earth Initiative

Aryaana Khan: Undergraduate Student / Youth Climate Organizer, CUNY City College / Alliance for Climate Education (ACE)

Radley Horton (moderator), Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast

Victoria Keener, Pacific RISA

Maria Carmen Lemos, Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments

Danielle Meeker, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy

Malgosia Madajewicz, Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University

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As History Repeats Itself: What Can We Learn from the 1930s White Rocks Island Retreat at Hampton Beach, NH? 

Kirsten Howard, University of New Hampshire

 

Co-Learning in Place: Social-Spatial Histories as a Tool for Equitable Resilience

Erica Avrami, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

 

Managed retreats by whom and how? Identifying and delineating governance modalities

Christina Hanna, University of Waikato

Iain White, University of Waikato

Bruce Glavovic, Massey University

 

Resilience, Race, and North Carolina's Post-Disaster Buyout Program, 1990-Present

Amanda Martin, NC Office of Recovery and Resiliency

 

Retreating from wildfire: when does emergency evacuation become permanent? 

John Handmer, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)

Johanna Nalau, Cities Research Institute (CRI), School of Environment and Science, Griffith University

 

Sea level rise policy as a question of history and place

Lisa Kelley, University of Colorado Denver

Alisha Summers, University of Hawaiʻi Manoa

Makena Coffman, University of Hawaiʻi Manoa

Laurel Mei-Singh, University of Hawaiʻi Manoa

William Kinney Jr., University of Hawaiʻi Manoa

Leah Bremer, University of Hawaiʻi Manoa)

Elizabeth Rush, author 

Julie Dermansky, photojournalist

Josephine Holtzman & Isaac Kestenbaum, documentary sound artists 

Nathan Kensinger, panel moderator, filmmaker and journalist

Opening Plenary