Coinciding with the current COP26 in Glasgow, you are invited to join a virtual book launch for Creating Resilient Futures, edited by Stephen Flood, Yairen Jerez Columbié, Martin Le Tissier and Barry O’Dwyer. The interactive 90 minute launch will take place Wednesday 3rd November at 10 am, GMT.
Link to Register for the live interactive launch webinar: https://lnkd.in/eHGGM9yD
Overview
This edited volume by Stephen Flood, Yairen Jerez Columbié, Martin Le Tissier, & Barry O'Dwyer critically examines the coherence building opportunity between Climate Change Adaptation, the Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction agendas. The authors consider opportunities to address the global challenge of developing resilience, as an integrated development continuum instead of through independent and siloed agendas. Book landing page: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030807900.
Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, is providing the opening address and three chapter authors (including myself) will provide a short overview of our chapters. Further details are attached including a registration link for the event, as well as a one-side overview of Tommaso and my chapter from the book.
As an Open Access publication, the online pdf version of the book with be free to access in perpetuity at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-80791-7
Book endorsements (select and shortened)
This excellent text recognises that efforts towards improving development outcomes must work in concert with strategies which promote planetary health and support the transition to a sustainable and climate-resilient future.
— Rt Hon Helen Clark, Patron, The Helen Clark Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand.
The threat multiplier of climate change is carefully used to examine best practice in a series of excellent case studies exploring the three related responses of disaster risk reduction, sustainable development and climate change adaptation.
—Emeritus Professor John Sweeney, Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Maynooth University, Ireland
This book provides concrete examples, through case studies from Ireland and around the world, to help illustrate what it means to think and act simultaneously on development, disasters and climate.
— Dr. Lisa Schipper, Environmental Social Science Research Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.