Abstract Climate change resilience is an area of praxis where efforts to enhance community adaptive capacity are informed by theory. However, there is growing evidence that ethnocentrism and privilege are shaping coastal management policies while many communities with climate justice issues struggle to build resilience. Particularly, rural coastal communities, contrasting urban areas, have limited access to centralized planning efforts, unique local contexts for outreach, compounding social vulnerabilities (job loss, out-migration, limited social services), and receive less attention from resilience researchers. Following calls to integrate climate justice into resilience praxis, we assess perceptions of adaptive capacity within predominately African American communities in a rural low-lying coastal region in eastern North Carolina. We add a climate justice lens to evaluate the previously-validated Rural Coastal Community Resilience (RCCR) framework. The RCCR is intended to improve planning efforts by providing climate change information, initiating conversations, and contributing to resilience theory. In contrast to its previous applications, engagement led to declines in perceived adaptive capacity. This result highlights that the information sharing goals of the engagement efforts were poorly aligned with community concerns and threat perceptions. Additionally, perceived climate injustices emerged revealing instances of adaptation oppression. This study recommends strategies to rethink traditional extension efforts to improve inclusiveness by deeply interrogating the inherent whiteness of standard modes of communicating climate science.

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通过适应能力评估揭示气候（不）公正：北卡罗来纳州沿海农村的多案例研究

摘要 气候变化适应力是一个实践领域，在该领域中，提高社区适应能力的努力以理论为依据。然而，越来越多的证据表明，民族中心主义和特权正在塑造沿海管理政策，而许多面临气候正义问题的社区却在努力建立复原力。特别是，与城市地区形成鲜明对比的农村沿海社区，获得集中规划工作的机会有限，外展的独特当地环境，复杂的社会脆弱性（失业、外迁、有限的社会服务），并且很少受到复原力研究人员的关注。在呼吁将气候正义纳入复原力实践之后，我们评估了北卡罗来纳州东部沿海低洼农村地区主要是非裔美国人社区对适应能力的看法。我们添加了一个气候正义镜头来评估先前经过验证的农村沿海社区复原力 (RCCR) 框架。RCCR 旨在通过提供气候变化信息、发起对话和为复原力理论做出贡献来改进规划工作。与其之前的应用相比，参与导致感知适应能力下降。这一结果突出表明，参与工作的信息共享目标与社区关注和威胁认知不一致。此外，出现了感知到的气候不公正现象，揭示了适应压迫的实例。这项研究提出了一些策略，通过深入询问传播气候科学的标准模式的固有白度，重新思考传统的推广工作以提高包容性。