media

Meet the Press

World Water Week in Stockholm is very policy oriented. This year, much of the focus was on sanitation, but two days were spent in a series of linked symposia on water and climate. Talks ranged from more details on emerging climate impacts with the IPCC’s new technical report on water and climate to regional and local adaptation strategies and tactics. Easily two of the most novel experiences for me as a scientist were interacting with the press as an “adaptation expert” and holding some introductory climate adaptation conversations with two international development banks. I’ll write more about the banks later, but the media interaction was a good if difficult experience. Read More...
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NEWS: Freshwater Climate Adaptation Primer

Just published online today, the ides of August, is a flyer for policymakers and water resource managers that I wrote with a good friend and colleague. Intended as a primer on climate change and freshwater conservation and economic development, it’s an introduction to some of the basic of my work. On some level, it’s a crystallization of a series of talks I’ve given to a wide range of scientific, policy, and lay audiences now 40 or more times in the past eight months. Be forewarned: the download is about 3 mb. Download it yourself, read it onscreen, and save some trees. Read More...
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