Building a resilient tomorrow: how to prepare for the coming climate disruption

By:

Hill, Alice C

Contributor(s):

Martinez-Diaz, Leonardo [Co-author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford University Press 2020 New YorkDescription: xi, 250 p.: ill. Includes bibliography and indexISBN:

9780190909345

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.7387409755521 H4B8

Summary: Even under the most optimistic scenarios, significant global climate change is now inevitable. Although we cannot tell with certainty how much average global temperatures will rise, we do know that the warming we have experienced to date has already caused significant losses, and that the failure to prepare for the consequences of further warming may prove to be staggering. This book does not dwell on overhyped descriptions of apocalyptic climate scenarios, nor does it travel down well-trodden paths surrounding the politics of reducing carbon emissions. Instead, it starts with two central facts: there will be future climate impacts, and we can make changes now to buffer their effects. While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face, this pragmatic guide focuses on solutions—some gradual and some more revolutionary—currently being deployed around the globe. Each chapter presents a thematic lesson for decision-makers and engaged citizens to consider, outlining replicable successes and identifying provocative recommendations to strengthen climate resilience. Between discussions of ideas as wide-ranging as managed retreat from coastal hot zones to biological solutions for resurgent climate-related disease threats, the authors draw on their personal experiences to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on these issues. The narrative is dotted with stories of on-the-ground citizenry, from small-town mayors and bankers to generals and engineers, who are chipping away at financial disincentives and bureaucratic hurdles to prepare for life on a warmer planet. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190909345.001.0001/oso-9780190909345

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Table of Contents

Introduction

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
Notes
Index

Even under the most optimistic scenarios, significant global climate change is now inevitable. Although we cannot tell with certainty how much average global temperatures will rise, we do know that the warming we have experienced to date has already caused significant losses, and that the failure to prepare for the consequences of further warming may prove to be staggering. This book does not dwell on overhyped descriptions of apocalyptic climate scenarios, nor does it travel down well-trodden paths surrounding the politics of reducing carbon emissions. Instead, it starts with two central facts: there will be future climate impacts, and we can make changes now to buffer their effects. While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face, this pragmatic guide focuses on solutions—some gradual and some more revolutionary—currently being deployed around the globe. Each chapter presents a thematic lesson for decision-makers and engaged citizens to consider, outlining replicable successes and identifying provocative recommendations to strengthen climate resilience. Between discussions of ideas as wide-ranging as managed retreat from coastal hot zones to biological solutions for resurgent climate-related disease threats, the authors draw on their personal experiences to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on these issues. The narrative is dotted with stories of on-the-ground citizenry, from small-town mayors and bankers to generals and engineers, who are chipping away at financial disincentives and bureaucratic hurdles to prepare for life on a warmer planet.

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