Peer-reviewedCC BYCell Reports Sustainability
From rational apathy to collective adaptation for coastal cities
- 1Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India; Corresponding author
Abstract
Coastal cities are not elevating fast enough to outpace sea-level rise. In a recent Cell Reports Sustainability article, 1 Zhao et al. demonstrate that this reflects rational climate apathy, not insufficient information. Here, we ask what could shift apathetic communities toward collective adaptation before the water arrives.
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BibTeX
@article{mukherjee2026from,
title = {{From rational apathy to collective adaptation for coastal cities}},
author = {Jenia Mukherjee},
journal = {Cell Reports Sustainability},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1016/j.crsus.2026.100874},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2026.100874},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - From rational apathy to collective adaptation for coastal cities
AU - Jenia Mukherjee
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/25
JO - Cell Reports Sustainability
DO - 10.1016/j.crsus.2026.100874
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2026.100874
AB - Coastal cities are not elevating fast enough to outpace sea-level rise. In a recent Cell Reports Sustainability article, 1 Zhao et al. demonstrate that this reflects rational climate apathy, not insufficient information. Here, we ask what could shift apathetic communities toward collective adaptation before the water arrives.
SN - 2949-7906
ER -