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dc.contributor.advisorArcaya, Mariana
dc.contributor.advisorBinet, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorNakagawa, Anisha Patil
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-08T18:54:58Z
dc.date.available2024-07-08T18:54:58Z
dc.date.issued2024-02
dc.date.submitted2024-06-28T20:58:56.639Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155493
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores how residents in low-income, rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods conceptualize resilience to climate change and what responses are desired. As part of a Participatory Action Research study in Eastern Massachusetts, I analyzed de-identified interviews with residents and engaged in collaborative data analysis sessions with Resident Researchers. Residents in these communities experience climate change through chronic stressors, mainly through heat, high utility bills, and flooding. They connect climate resilience to other stressors in their lives like displacement, structural racism, and trauma, and they see strong community ties as a key piece of resilience. Based on this research, responses to climate change need to consider the root causes of unjust systems, respond to the co-stressors in people’s lives, and have community ownership and control in order to be most effective.
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology
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dc.titleUnderstanding Climate Change through a Community Definition of Resilience: Qualitative Analysis of Interviews and Implications for Practice
dc.typeThesis
dc.description.degreeM.C.P.
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
mit.thesis.degreeMaster
thesis.degree.nameMaster in City Planning


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