Garima is a Ph.D. student in Geography and a Gilbert F. White Environment and Society Fellow at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (SGSUP) at Arizona State University. Her research, practice, and teaching interests lie at the intersection of climate change adaptation, land change science, and human decision-making processes. Using these lenses, she focuses on disaster recovery processes and long-term outcomes for affected populations and places, especially those located in the Global South. She is currently studying long-term outcomes of adaptation responses to climatic extremes in coastal areas of India.