Dr. Brianna Castro

Biography

Brianna Castro is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of the Environment, where her research focuses on how communities navigate climate change through everyday adaptation strategies, with a particular emphasis on climate migration, land tenure, and environmental justice. Bridging the fields of environmental sociology and urban planning, Castro conducts policy-relevant field research that spans both the Global North and Global South, with extensive studies in Colombia, Nigeria, and the United States. Her work has been published in leading academic journals including Social Problems, Ecology and Society, and Global Environmental Change. Castro earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University and has a background that includes serving as an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. She is also the founder of the CLIMA (Climate Migration Adaptation) Research Lab, which aims to innovate and implement research on climate adaptation.

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