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    "pk": 60860,
    "title": "Reinforcing Community Climate Resilience through Social Cohesion: Opportunities for Local Governments in Southern California",
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    "abstract": "This paper aims to identify how local governments may strengthen climate resilience by supporting bottom-up social cohesion within communities themselves. Social cohesion may be broadly characterized as a society's willingness to cooperate to achieve the shared well-being of all its members. Despite having particularly good outcomes in low-income communities, social cohesion has often been overlooked as an adaptive climate resilience tool. Without effetive safeguards in place to protect long-term social cohesion, climate impacts will only diminish communities' ability to build social cohesion in the first place. Through community-based legal and policy mechanisms that address existing social economic problems, local governments can enshrine social cohesion frameworks as an adaptive resiliency tool for use against imminent climate impacts.\nFirst, this paper will introduce social cohesion as a concept and the different dimensions through which it has been analyzed. Next, it will discuss the relationship between social cohesion, resilience, and climate change's amplification of barriers to buildign these tools—particularly in low-income and marginalized communities. Then, this paper will provide an overview of a few legal and policy approached and recommendations that have been in areas throughout the United States to support communicty social cohesion in light of climate threats. Finally, these principles will be applied to the context of current adaptation efforts in Southern California, concluding with recommendations for local governments to facilitate more robust forms of social cohesion in building climate resilience.",
    "language": "en",
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    "section": "Student Comments",
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        {
            "first_name": "Cassandra",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Vo",
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    "date_submitted": "2025-07-03T12:27:47-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2025-07-03T12:27:47-07:00",
    "date_published": "2024-12-31T16:00:00-08:00",
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