Octopus in the Parking Garage - A Call for Climate Resilience

Rob Verchick explores what climate resilience looks like on the ground, taking the reader on a journey into the field. Engaging and accessible for nonexpert concerned citizens, this book empowers readers to face the climate crisis and shows what we can do to adapt and thrive.

List of contents

Part I: Understanding Resilience
1. Let’s Talk About the Octopus
2. Adapt or Die
3. Sprawling Brains and Rubber Arms
4. Climate and Caste
5. Believing Is Seeing
Part II: Doing Resilience
6. Moonshot on the Bayou
7. Lights Out
8. Flash! Crack! Boom!
9. Yuccas, Gardeners, and Zookeepers
10. The Octopus’s Garden
11. The Long Goodbye
12. Persist and Prevail
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Rob Verchick is a leading climate law scholar who designed and implemented climate-resilience policies in the Obama administration. He holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University New Orleans, is a senior fellow in disaster resilience at Tulane University, and serves as president of the Center for Progressive Reform. Verchick is the author of four books and host of the podcast Connect the Dots.

Summary

Rob Verchick explores what climate resilience looks like on the ground, taking the reader on a journey into the field. Engaging and accessible for nonexpert concerned citizens, this book empowers readers to face the climate crisis and shows what we can do to adapt and thrive.

Product details

• Authors: Rob Verchick
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2023
• EAN: 9780231203548
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20354-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, United States of America, USA, Human Geography