Sea Level Rise and Multispecies Climate Justice

Abstract

Climate change is causing sea levels to rise at an accelerating rate, impacting shorelines around the world. The long-term impacts will occur over generations and will be highly spatially variable along coastlines. Sea level rise impacts and adaptation responses vary geographically and affect all who dwell in or move through coastal spaces. The emerging lens of multispecies climate justice allows us to look deeper into the interrelated ecologies of climate impacts by considering a broad assessment of interrelated beings and ecosystems. This talk will discuss research on the global impacts of sea level rise on nonhuman animals, and implications for advancing multispecies climate justice. This work was a collaborative project with my former undergraduate students Ava Sharpe, Rory Crisfield, Libby Rankin, and Caitlin Bolzan.