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Rooted resistance: Communal land tenure as climate action in Puerto Rico and Barbuda

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Presentation Rooted resistance: Communal land tenure as climate action in Puerto Rico and Barbuda,  by Dr. Line Algoed (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

Line Algoed is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Cosmopolis Center for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Her research explores the role of communal land tenure in the face of climate change in the Caribbean. 

She works closely with the Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust in Puerto Rico on international community exchanges, and supports Barbuda in their struggle to preserve their centuries-old communal land system. She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Center for Community Land Trusts, and is co-editor of the book On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust.

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Island(er)s at the Helm: Co-creating research on sustainable and inclusive solutions for social adaptation to climate challenges in the (Dutch) Caribbean