ABSTRACT
This chapter offers recommendations to move policies forward that support communities to reduce risk, mitigate harm, and adapt. The diversity of communities and places, on-the-ground actions and networks for how things are actually accomplished, intricacies of local politics and maneuvering, and layers of sociohistorical inequalities are often missing from expert calculations and official frameworks for action. The governance frameworks established need to be flexible so that the communities needing the support can access resources and trigger policies to facilitate the process, but in a way that is culturally appropriate and adaptable to their particular circumstance. Resettlement policies "must improve and protect socio-cultural and human-ecological relationships or communities will suffer." The public needs to demand at the local, regional, national, and international levels a shift away from unsustainable resource extraction and burning of fossil fuels and toward a just transition to clean, renewable energy sources.
