Document Type

Response or Comment

Publication Date

2018

DOI

10.4031/MTSJ.52.2.10

Publication Title

Marine Technology Society Journal

Volume

52

Issue

2

Pages

106-110

Abstract

[From Introduction]

The United States is taking a largely region-specific approach to addressing challenges posed by climate change, in contrast with national and international approaches in most of the rest of the world. In locations such as Hampton Roads, New Orleans, and coastal Connecticut, the impacts of climate change tend to be addressed as they become locally evident rather than as part of a larger anticipatory national plan. Given that regional focus, universities can play a unique role in how the United States responds to the challenges of a changing climate. Universities can be knowledge brokers positioned outside or across political, jurisdictional, and agency boundaries (localities, states, and federal) that often are problematic for regional planning and action and that tend to particularize rather than generalize knowledge. Universities have the capacity to translate that knowledge from local cases to politically and culturally contextualized states to global generalizations.

Comments

Reprinted with permission. The Marine Technology Society is a not-for-profit, international, professional association. Founded in 1963, the Society believes that the advancement of marine technology and the productive, sustainable use of the oceans depend upon the active exchange of ideas between government, industry and academia. See www.mtsociety.org.

Original Publication Citation

Foster, M., O'Donnell, J., Luckenbach, M., Andrews, E., Steinhilber, E., Wells, J., & Davis, M. (2018). Institutionalizing resilience in US universities: Prospects, opportunities, and models. Marine Technology Society Journal, 52(2), 106-110. doi:10.4031/MTSJ.52.2.10

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