The urgent need to address the growing risk of storm and sea level rise-driven flooding, locally and around the world, led the Climate School to make coastal resilience one of its first four transdisciplinary initiatives. Here in the New York metropolitan area, this initiative will be served by a new Resilient Coastal Communities Project (RCCP), under the auspices of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD), working in partnership with the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance. The RCCP’s principal goal will be to foster new collaborations between practitioners and researchers, as envisioned in Columbia’s Task Force Report on Directed Action, to help develop actionable, fundable, and equitable solutions to flood risks that also deliver complimentary benefits, like habitat restoration, job creation, and greater community cohesion and help maintain the Climate School’s commitment to fairness, social justice, and anti-racism.
More Information can be found at The Resilient Coastal Communities Project (CSUD)
Contact: Paul Gallay [email protected]
