Managing the Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought, and Wildfire

A Smart Growth Network Webinar

Tuesday, August 23, 2022 - 1:00pm EDT
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The climate, relatively stable for centuries, is entering a new phase. In 2020, 22 major weather and climate events in the U.S. resulted in 262 deaths, with each causing more than $1 billion in damages. This trend is continuing with heat waves, extended droughts, extended wildfire seasons, and increased coastal and river flooding.

Managing the Climate Crisis authors Jonathan Barnett and Matthijs Bouw joined the Smart Growth Network to outline how adaptation and preventive measures can be used to address climate-related threats, including flooding along coastlines and rivers, flash floods from extreme rain events, drought, wildfire, long periods of high heat, and food shortages

Participants

Jonathan Barnett

Jonathan Barnett is a Fellow of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, and former director of the Urban Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author, co-author, or editor of three previous Island Press books, and has written many other books and articles about city and regional design.

Matthijs Bouw | An Island Press book

Matthijs Bouw

Matthijs Bouw, is an Associate Professor of Practice of Landscape Architecture, a Rockefeller Urban Resilience Fellow, and a Fellow for Risk and Resilience of the McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a founder of One Architecture & Urbanism, an award-winning architecture and planning firm, established in 1995, with offices in New York City and Amsterdam. His projects in the U.S. include continuing planning work for Climate-Ready Boston and climate-resilience plans for New York City.