CASBS Symposium: Eric Klinenberg on "Climate Change and the Future of Cities"

What can cities do about climate change? How can they help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable forms of collective life? How can they protect vulnerable people and places from the outbursts of extreme weather that are becoming ever more likely to arrive? And can they adapt to global warming without making the world even more unequal? In this talk, held at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) on October 25, 2016, CASBS fellow Eric Klinenberg shows how social science helps answer these urgent questions. Drawing on his own research, including an influential article on climate adaptation in The New Yorker, as well as his experience serving as Research Director of the federal government's Rebuild By Design competition for rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy, Klinenberg examines innovative urban climate projects across the planet and offers surprising solutions for some of the most challenging problems of our time.

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
http://casbs.stanford.edu

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