2.3. Research Questions

Recognition, participation and epistemic dimensions of justice are a crucial component of understanding what is normally glossed over in official resilience and adaptation policy documents and is not captured by distributional studies of flooding: the why and how specific social groups may be more or less affected by coastal flooding. This pilot study advances a set of research questions aimed at capturing procedural dimensions as they unfold on the ground and in alternative community planning documents in East Harlem, New York City. The overall study question is:
In order to answer this question I ask: