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While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face,
Building a Resilient Tomorrow presents replicable sustainability successes and clear-cut policy recommendations that can improve the climate resilience of communities in the US and beyond.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword by Craig Fugate
- Introduction: Building a Resilient Tomorrow
- PART I: SYSTEMS FOR LARGE-SCALE CHANGE
- 1. Rethink Where and How We Build
- 2. Lawyer Up
- 3. Make Markets Work for Resilience
- PART II: TOOLS FOR THE DECISION-MAKER
- 4. Find Better Ways to Pay for Resilience
- 5. Get the Data and Make Them Usable
- 6. Work with Human Nature
- PART III: THE UPENDERS
- 7. Harden the Health Care System, and Make It Smarter
- 8. Buffer Growing Inequality
- 9. Relocate People to Safer Ground
- 10. Reconceive National Security
- Conclusion: Silo-Breakers, Translators, and Communicators
About the author
Alice Hill is David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has also served at the White House as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Senior Director for Resilience Policy on the National Security Council. As a member of Obama's climate team, Hill led the creation of national policy regarding catastrophic risk, including the impacts of climate change. Hill previously served as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, as an ex-officio member of the Third National Climate Assessment, a supervising judge in California, and as chief of the white-collar crime unit in the Los Angeles US Attorney's Office.
Leonardo Martinez-Diaz is Senior Director for Climate Finance in the Office of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. During the Obama Administration, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Environment at the US Department of the Treasury, representing the United States in
international climate negotiations and multilateral bodies. He is the author of Globalizing in Hard Times: The Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World (Cornell, 2009) and co-editor, with Ngaire Woods, of Networks of Influence? Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Craig Fugate is Chief Resilience Officer of One Concern and former Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Summary
While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face, Building a Resilient Tomorrow presents replicable sustainability successes and clear-cut policy recommendations that can improve the climate resilience of communities in the US and beyond.
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Building a Resilient Tomorrow is an important, unique, and useful guide for learning how to build in resilience and cope with the real and increasing impacts of climate change.
