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Podcast: American Shoreline Podcast Network
Episode: Kristen Goodrich, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve
Description: Both coastal adaptation professionals and their stakeholders are increasingly asked to deal with uncertainty, surprise and difficult transformative change as they face growing threats from climate change, including sea-level rise and extreme events. They also face a growing psychological crisis. The list of traumatizing disasters grows longer every year: Katrina, Irene, Sandy, Matthew, Maria, Harvey, Florence, Dorian and so on. And even in the absence of a traumatic natural disaster, “just” the inexorable change can result in fear, anxiety, outrage and grief among other responses when facing these growing realities.
As coastal professionals seeking to support our comm...