November 2023 MBR The Environmental Studies Shelf

The Environmental Studies Shelf

Climate Resilience
Kylie Flanagan
North Atlantic Books
www.northatlanticbooks.com
9781623179021, $19.95, PB, 352pp

https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Resilience-Communities-Against-Change/dp/1623179025

Synopsis: With the publication of "Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change", climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see and act beyond status-quo solutions, Big Tech promises...and everything we're usually told about how to save the planet.

Centering the voices of Native Rights activists, queer liberation ecologists, youth climate-justice organizers, Latinx wilderness activists, and others on the front lines, "Climate Resilience" urges us toward a vision of climate care that invests in place-based, community-led projects focused on: Relationship Repair; Ecological Restoration; Economic Regeneration; Collective Care; Community Adaptation; Cultural Strategy; and People Power.

Each section offers practical blueprints for engaging with different aspects of climate-change action through mutual aid, seed-saving, community-owned energy, community safety plans, and more, and includes a range of ideas for readers to apply these strategies in their own communities.

Critique: Informatively enhanced for the reader with the inclusion of a ten page Glossary, twenty-four pages of Notes, and a ten page Index, "Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change" will be of special value to readers with an interest in addressing the issues of an evolving climatology driven crisis. Especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, governmental, and college/university Climate Science & Environment Science collections and supplemental Environmentalism curriculum studies lists, it should be noted for students, academia, environmental activists, governmental policy makers, and non- specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that "Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $13.99).

Editorial Note: Kylie Flanagan is a climate communicator and the Executive Director of a small, climate justice-focused foundation. Originally from Miwok lands in the California Bay Area, she currently resides on Munsee Lenape lands in New York City. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College and received a Master's in Sustainability Solutions from Presidio Graduate School. She has dabbled in goat midwifery, cheesemaking, tiny house architecture and construction, supper club hosting, edible landscaping, and sustainable business consulting, always driven by a desire to make the world more delicious, beautiful, joyous, and just. Climate Resilience is her first book.

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