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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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pallavib.bsky.social
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
July 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
kelseabest.bsky.social
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
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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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July 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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jgilligan.org
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_.

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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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July 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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brown-ibes.bsky.social
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 ⤵️
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...
www.frontiersin.org
June 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
kelseabest.bsky.social
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...
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...
www.frontiersin.org
May 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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sgonzalezcoffin.bsky.social
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
May 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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rmcleman.bsky.social
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.
April 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
kelseabest.bsky.social
"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."
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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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April 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
kelseabest.bsky.social
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
March 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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commsearth.nature.com
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...
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...
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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jgilligan.org
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...
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...
www.nature.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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keenanclimate.com
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...
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.
www.cnn.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
kelseabest.bsky.social
The devastating LA fires will undoubtedly have widespread effects on housing availability and affordability www.fastcompany.com/91258483/l-a...
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.
www.fastcompany.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
kelseabest.bsky.social
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...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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jgilligan.org
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.
May 12, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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evictionlab.bsky.social
“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

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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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November 29, 2023 at 4:04 PM
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jgilligan.org
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.
November 21, 2023 at 3:53 PM