Sameer Shah

Projects are not delivering the transformative change needed for climate change adaptation. This failure is due to the delivery of adaptation as projects. In this article, we explore real alternatives that can address the structural causes of vulnerability. DM for pdf! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beyond unintentionality: considering climate maladaptation as cyclical - Climatic Change Climate adaptation is imperative; however, instances of maladaptation are increasingly documented in sectors and locations around the world. Despite the prevalence of maladaptation, researchers and in...

Is climate maladaptation "unintentional"? Should it be considered "unanticipated"? Our new article published in Climatic Change digs into this question: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NCA6 Update April 28, 2025 Dear NCA6 Participants, Thank you for your participation in the 6th National Climate Assessment. At this time, the scope of the NCA6 is currently being reevaluated in accordance with the Global Change Research Act of 1990. We are now releasing all current assessment participants from their roles. As plans develop for the assessment, there may be future opportunities to contribute or engage. Thank you for your service.

Well, it's official. We just received notice that all authors on the Sixth National Climate Assessment have just been released from their roles.

The NCA is a vital, Congressionally mandated resource for our nation as we prepare for the impacts of climate change. This is a huge loss.

Centering environmental justice in United States (U.S.) National Climate Assessments (NCAs): a historical and contemporary analysis - Climatic Change Since 1990, the U.S. Global Change Research Program has published five cross-sectoral National Climate Assessment (NCA) reports. Federal, state, and local governments, policymakers, and the public emp...

The 8th paper in our series is "Centering environmental justice in United States National Climate Assessments". This awesome analysis makes the case for centering EJ to inform actionable, relevant, and accessible climate change science and responses.
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Beyond unintentionality: considering climate maladaptation as cyclical - Climatic Change Climate adaptation is imperative; however, instances of maladaptation are increasingly documented in sectors and locations around the world. Despite the prevalence of maladaptation, researchers and in...

New paper on cyclical maladaptation! Together with @sameershah.bsky.social, @celinabg.bsky.social, @mills-novoa.bsky.social and Meagan Carmack, we explore the importance of moving beyond the discourse of unintentionality for maladaptation research.

Paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

With @jamiehaverkamp.bsky.social, @celinabg.bsky.social, @mills-novoa.bsky.social and Meagan Carmack.

Beyond unintentionality: considering climate maladaptation as cyclical - Climatic Change Climate adaptation is imperative; however, instances of maladaptation are increasingly documented in sectors and locations around the world. Despite the prevalence of maladaptation, researchers and in...

Is climate maladaptation "unintentional"? Should it be considered "unanticipated"? Our new article published in Climatic Change digs into this question: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

We want to support an early-career scientist in applying for this Sloan AI postdoctoral fellowship. Please be in touch if you are interested in applying, and have social sciences and humanities expertise in climate vulnerability and critical adaptation / disaster studies. sloan.org/programs/dig...

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Call for Fellows! 🚨

@ipbes.net is seeking #EarlyCareer experts to join the #GlobalAssessment2. Contribute to assessing progress towards achieving the goals of sustainability! 🌍🧪

🗓 Apply by 28 March 2025

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Opinion | The New Evidence Climate Change Will Upend American Homeownership A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.

"Climate change is upending the basic assumption that Americans can continue to build wealth and financial security by owning their own home. In a sense, it is upending the American dream." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...

New Article, Online First, Open Access: Nicholls, J., Jupp, E., McDermont, M., & Newman, J. (2025). Beyond resilience? State failure, mutual aid and local action. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/2399...

Hi Bsky, the paperback of Decolonization Environmentalism is out now! Please use the discount code "GLR BD8" to save 20% www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz... #GreenSky

Heads up for the Weather Community!

You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!

written with a dream team of #HWISE colleagues: Ellis Adams, Jessica Budds, Leila Harris, @wendyjepson.bsky.social, Tennille Marley, Chloe Nguyen, Amber Pearson, Anaís Roque, @asherrosinger.bsky.social, @sameershah.bsky.social, Matt Stellbauer, and @awutich.bsky.social

Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures - IOPscienceSearch Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures, Melissa Beresford, Ellis Adams, Jessica Budds, Leila M Harris, Wendy Jepson, Tennille Marley, Chloe Nguyen, Amber Pearson, Anaís Delilah Roque, Asher Y Rosinger, Sameer H Shah, Matthew Stellbauer, Amber Wutich

We know that water sharing is a major way that households cope with inadequate water globally. But can water sharing help advance household water security? We address this question in our new paper out today in Environmental Research Letters: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

What a turnaround for typos and grammatical mistakes. After years of being irritants, they are now quaint and charming evidence that the text was written by a human being.

The new political ecology starter pack is here go.bsky.app/Kr7iPwr

Brilliant starter pack on adaptation to climate change by @meadekrosby.bsky.social :) go.bsky.app/3G5Eono

screenshot of first page, abstract reads: Despite an ever-growing critical literature, vulnerability retains its place as a dominant concept in climate politics. What is less heavily researched is the concept of “invulnerability,” an idea that feminist and decolonial theory has many tools to critique. After unpacking the material and discursive elements of vulnerability politics, this article focuses on invulnerability as a concept that is an influential yet unexplored set of masculine and colonial fantasies. These fantasies – of modernity, mastery, and continentalism – are critiqued through different critical traditions, which are brought into conversation with climate politics literature. I then discuss the counternarratives of Oceanic thought, following Teresia Teaiwa’s prompt to “island the world.” I argue that this can be done through a focus on care, relationality, and a decolonial politics of resistance. I conclude that resisting the politics of vulnerability requires an engagement with critical feminist and decolonial thought to enable an imaginative piercing of the fantasies of invulnerability.

New article! I'll do a thread / blog soon, but it's out, and it's Open Access!

'Colonial fantasies of invulnerability to climate change'

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A nice starter pack to introduce qualitative researchers to each other! Recommended : go.bsky.app/N6x825K

Could you add me please?

I haven’t seen a Starter Pack on critical approaches to climate adaptation—please let me know if I can add you (or remove you!).

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I made a starter pack of social scientists who study the environment/climate change. Let me know who else I should add!

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Could you please add me?

Just for the record, a complete 🧵 of my 🧵 on adaptation.
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Part I

Climate–water crises: critically engaging relational, spatial, and temporal dimensions - Ecology & Society Declarations of water crises have been ubiquitous in water policy and practice for decades. In the face of unprecedented human-caused climate change, the circulation of water crisis discourses has inc...

First BlueSky 🦋 post: Our recent article led by @njwilson.bsky.social on critically interrogating climate—water crises using spatial, relational and temporal lenses. Check it out!
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