Community Resilience through Public Engagement: A Study of Outreach and Science Communication in a Coastal National Park Site by Jamie Remillard
Engaged public science communication can support community resilience as policymakers, resource managers, and citizens come to terms with the effects of environmental disturbances, natural disasters, and climate change. Drawing upon fieldbased ethnographic research of public-facing outreach and education at Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS), the researcher considers how, in the wake of a catastrophic storm,…