Coastal regions worldwide will be dramatically reshaped by the impacts of sea-level rise. Of particular concern are impacts on coastal wetlands, the loss of which would have consequences for both human and ecological communities. The future of many coastal wetlands will depend greatly on their capacities to migrate into uplands. Coastal resilience work within wetland sciences has increasingly focused on developing strategies to promote marsh migration into rural uplands; however, less attention has been given to the impacts that migrating marshes have on people in these landscapes. In this paper, we share rural perspectives and experiences with marsh migration through three case-studies from collaborative research with rural, low-lying communities on the Chesapeake Bay, USA. These case-studies demonstrate the complexities of the challenges facing rural communities as a result of marsh migration, and reveal important issues of equity and injustice that need attention in future coastal resilience work. We draw upon a socio-ecological systems (SES) approach to highlight potential human-ecological misalignments that emerge with marsh migration and to offer future research questions to inform socially-just and resilient wetland migration planning in rural coastal areas.

海平面上升的影响将极大地重塑全世界的沿海地区。特别令人关注的是对沿海湿地的影响，其丧失将对人类和生态社区造成影响。许多沿海湿地的未来将在很大程度上取决于其迁移到高地的能力。湿地科学领域的沿海复原力工作越来越侧重于制定促进沼泽向农村高地迁移的战略；然而，人们对沼泽地迁移对这些地区的人们的影响的关注较少。在本文中，我们通过与美国切萨皮克湾农村低洼社区的合作研究中的三个案例研究，分享了农村对沼泽迁移的看法和经验。这些案例研究证明了沼泽迁移导致农村社区面临的挑战的复杂性，并揭示了公平和不公正的重要问题，这些问题在未来的沿海抗灾工作中需要予以关注。我们利用社会生态系统（SES）的方法来强调沼泽迁移带来的潜在的人类生态失调，并提出未来的研究问题，以为农村沿海地区的社会公正和有弹性的湿地迁移计划提供依据。