Why amphibious, wet environments hold the key to climate adaptation🌳🌳

Amphibious Anthropologies: Living in Wet Environments Edited by Alejandro Camargo, Luisa Cortesi and Franz Krause Univ. Washington Press (2025)

Coastal zones, river basins, marshes and other amphibious environments — where the boundaries between land and water are constantly redrawn —have always been places of shifting wetness. Climate change has deepened this instability, making the borders between wet and dry regions more erratic and unpredictable.

In Amphibious Anthropologies, nine essays explore these watery, in-between landscapes, offering insights from people who have long lived in the nebulous zones between land and water. These communities have learnt to adapt, to build sustainable futures in places where permanence is an illusion and where the ebb and flow of water is not a threat to be conquered, but a force to live with. The book is a guide for navigating a world in flux — taught by those who have always known that solid ground is not always solid.