During my postdoctoral work at the Columbia Climate School with Dr. Kristina Douglass, I implemented and refined this approach to gain a deeper understanding of how individuals navigate adaptive strategies influenced by social and environmental constraints. Establishing a toolkit for collaborative research and development initiatives, I partnered with the Velondriaka Community Association in southwestern Madagascar. Consequently, my work challenges the prevailing etic paradigm that views communities as uniform entities. I integrated theories and methods from environmental sociology and public health, incorporating concepts such as social adaptive capacity and barriers to care-seeking behavior. This fusion allowed for the co-production of a groundbreaking assessment, shedding light on cultural and livelihood adaptations in coastal communities grappling with climate-change-induced resource scarcity. Read about it here!