Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
- ISBN-10
- 019090934X
- ISBN-13
- 9780190909345
- Category
- Climate change mitigation
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Authors
- Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
Description
Even under the most optimistic scenarios, significant global climate change is now inevitable. 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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