Managing Climate Risk in Resilient Cities

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Susskind teaches full time at MIT. He is the author or co-author of twenty books, including Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities and Environmental Diplomacy. Klappentext Discussions on climate change generally focus on the necessity of reducing carbon emissions, while recognizing that such action will take a long time to materialize. Lawrence Susskind contends that communities can take action to combat climate change now, through steps that have the benefit of moderating the effects of flooding, heat waves, and drought-events already occurring with increasing frequency.2016 Wallace Stegner Lecture

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Susskind
• Publisher: The University of Utah Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781607815631
• ISBN: 978-1-60781-563-1
• No. of pages: 42
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 210 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Wallace Stegner Lecture; Wallace Stegner Lecture
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology