Evaluating the climate change adaptation barriers of critical infrastructure in rural Alaska

Taylor, Jessica E.; Poleacovschi, Cristina; Perez, Michael A.

doi:10.1080/17565529.2022.2123698

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“…As a final example, compelling data suggests that community racial/ethnic composition predicts drinking water quality, but also that socioeconomic factors moderate (interact with racial/ethnic composition) the effect of with black and Hispanic communities most strongly predicting water violations in low socioeconomic communities (see Switzer and Teodoro, 2018). Water insecurity is also a significant problem in Alaska Native communities (Taylor et al, 2022(Taylor et al, , 2023. Over 3,300 rural Alaska homes and approximately 3% of Alaskan residents lack access to piped water and flush toilets (Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, 2023).…”

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A perspective for identifying intersections among the social, engineering, and geosciences to address water crises

Weems,

Poleacovschi,

Ikuma

2023

Front. Water

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Reliable access to safe water is essential for health, wellbeing, and the livelihoods of people. However, water security innovations benefit when engineering and geoscience decisions consider systemic human, social, and organizational realities, needs, and goals. Indeed, true innovation that leads to water security requires intensively inclusive and iterative processes to occur at multiple scales of analysis across diverse sciences—for this, expertise and knowledge across the varied sciences is essential to facilitate such convergent, transdisciplinary research. Here, we articulate our perspective for identifying points of intersection and working across disciplinary boundaries to address water crises. Our perspective takes a multidimensional view of community, organization, family, and individual resilience in the face of natural and human hazards. It builds upon previous models of cumulative water related risk by nuancing the relationships amongst levels of analysis, and expanding the idea of cumulative impacts to include interactive impacts (e.g., buffering, enhancing, effects and other moderators), mediated effects (i.e., mechanisms of impact), as well as additive and suppressive linkages amongst risk and protective factors.

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A perspective for identifying intersections among the social, engineering, and geosciences to address water crises

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Poleacovschi,

Ikuma

2023

Front. Water

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“…Local knowledge, including Indigenous Knowledge, is often a valuable asset in building resilience to weather and climate extremes (Taylor et al, 2022; Tran et al, 2021). However, projects often fall short in building the necessary trust and reciprocal respect needed for pairing technical and local knowledge in mutually beneficial ways (Hemmerling, Barra, et al, 2022; Hemmerling, DeMyers, et al, 2022; Kumasaka et al, 2022; Ristroph, 2019).…”

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Building resilience to extreme weather and climate events in the rural water and wastewater sectors

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Edwards

et al. 2023

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Extreme weather and climate events pose significant risks to rural water and wastewater systems. We examine the vulnerability of the water sector to weather and climate extremes in rural, predominantly Indigenous and underserved coastal areas and analyze how networks support resilience. Drawing on the analysis of 39 web‐based questionnaire responses and 19 interviews with rural water and wastewater managers and service providers in southern Louisiana and western Alaska, this article reports a range of interrelated historical, environmental, and social factors that influence vulnerability to extreme weather events. Formal and informal social networks serve multiple roles in building resilience. These roles include building technical and financial capacities, supporting emergency response and operational‐ to long‐term planning, fostering data collection and monitoring, supporting information sharing and innovative research, and providing institutional support. Results from this research enrich our understanding of the social, relational, and networking processes that condition community resilience to extreme weather events.

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“…Increased permafrost thawing, flooding, and coastal erosion have already caused significant structural failures and damage to village infrastructure in this region (Larsen et al, 2008). The damage to infrastructure, such as water pipes and roads, has forced villages to move their structures away from the river (Taylor et al, 2022) in a process called managed retreat.…”

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Channel erosion projections for threatened Alaska-Native communities along the Kuskokwim River

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Evaluating the climate change adaptation barriers of critical infrastructure in rural Alaska

Cited by 7 publications

References 46 publications

A perspective for identifying intersections among the social, engineering, and geosciences to address water crises

A perspective for identifying intersections among the social, engineering, and geosciences to address water crises

Building resilience to extreme weather and climate events in the rural water and wastewater sectors

Channel erosion projections for threatened Alaska-Native communities along the Kuskokwim River

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