Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption - Hardcover

Hill, Alice C.; Martinez-Diaz, Leonardo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019090934X ISBN 13: 9780190909345

Publisher: OUP USA, 2019

Synopsis

Even under the most optimistic scenarios, significant global climate change is now inevitable. What can we do today to mitigate the effects for the next generation?

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About the Author

Alice Hill 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 Director of the Sustainable Finance Center at the World Resources Institute, where he leads the Center's work to help drive finance into activities that promote sustainability and combat climate change. During the Obama Administration, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Environment at the U.S. 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).

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019090934X
• ISBN 13: 9780190909345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264