Abstract
The challenges and opportunities for resilience for urban estuaries such as Jamaica Bay come from the people who live, work, and visit there. Soils, rocks, and the weather; birds, fish, and salt marsh grasses, may or may not be resilient on their own terms, but what human beings do and how we think is where resilience practice by people begins. Throughout this book, we refer to the Jamaica Bay watershed as a social-ecological system (SES), and in this chapter we attempt to describe the varied populations, many neighborhoods, and diverse communities of this part of New York City and to explore how they think of themselves and their relationship to the environment.
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The authors acknowledge Monica Barra, Victoria Curtis, Amanda Lewis, Tim Viltz, and Jeremy Wells for contributing to the interviews in this chapter.
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Ramasubramanian, L. et al. (2016). Neighborhood and Community Perspectives of Resilience in the Jamaica Bay Watershed. In: Sanderson, E.W., Solecki, W.D., Waldman, J.R., Parris, A.S. (eds) Prospects for Resilience. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-734-6_6
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