Kelly M. Britt from Anthropology and Rebecca Boger from Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences project “Community Mapping Climate Change: Stories from Great South Bay, LI” has been selected for funding through CUNY’s Interdisciplinary Research Grant program. They will be working collaboratively with CUNY graduate students Scott Ferrara and Katharhy Grossman from the Graduate Center and Lehman College on this project. In his project they propose a pilot project that will bring together an interdisciplinary team at Brooklyn College with non-government and government organizations, advocacy groups, Indigenous communities, and individuals in the Great South Bay area, Long Island, New York to assess the impacts on cultural heritage from climate change through a robust community engagement process informed by storytelling and mapping. This project is motivated by the hypothesis that equitable adaptation to the impacts of climate change, in particular sea level rise and extreme events, will be more resilient and sustainable when the perspectives of various and diverse community stakeholders are involved in the co-planning, co-production of knowledge, and ultimately the co-implementation of strategies to mitigate the impacts of climate change on intangible and tangible cultural heritage. Congratulations Profs. Britt and Boger!
