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    "Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.",
    "Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.",
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    "ByWater Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA.",
    "International Resilience Lab in Arizona Institute for Resilience, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.",
    "Headwaters Economics, Bozeman, MT 59715, USA.",
    "Adaptation International, Austin, TX 78704, USA.",
    "Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.",
    "School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.",
    "Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.",
    "Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA."
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  "title": "Building adaptive capacity of US Gulf Coast city practitioners to extreme weather events.",
  "title_text": "Building adaptive capacity of US Gulf Coast city practitioners to extreme weather events.",
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