Speaker Series: Radical Adaptation - Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World, Brian Stone
Extreme heat, extreme flooding, and extreme drought. Today, every major city – in all regions of the world – is confronted with these significant impacts of climate change and more. Dr. Brian Stone proposes radical adaptation. With hard hitting science explained in an engaging and accessible way, Dr. Stone explores a set of strategies for managing the rising frequency and intensity of climate events, including early examples of adaptation in Atlanta.
What changes are needed to enhance climate resilience while advancing the imperatives of climate justice, affordable housing, and a broader urban ecology? A distinct departure from conventional modes of environmental management in cities, radical adaptation requires adaptive infrastructure to be highly dispersed rather than centralized; directed toward zones of greatest human vulnerability rather than physical vulnerability; and inclusive of strategies once deemed socially untenable. Dr. Stone recently published his latest book on climate, Radical Adaptation: Transforming Cities for a Climate-Changed World.
We thank our Speaker Series community partner and venue host for this event: The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library (Atlanta, GA).
About the Speaker: Brian Stone Jr., Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the area of urban environmental planning and design. Stone's program of research is focused on the spatial drivers of urban environmental phenomena, with an emphasis on urban scale climate change, and is supported by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
He is Director of the Urban Climate Lab at Georgia Tech. Stone's work on urbanization and climate change has been featured on CNN and National Public Radio, and in print media outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. He is author of The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live (Cambridge University Press), which received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for 2012. Stone holds degrees in environmental management and planning from Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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