Saturday, May 24, 2014

Climate Change: Difficult Choices



2014 - Climate Change conference 5: Difficult Choices (talks) | The New School
Published on May 1, 2014
The Center for Public Scholarship (http://www.newschool.edu/cps) is pleased to present the 31st Social Research conference, "Climate Change Demands We Change. Why Aren't We?," at The New School (http://www.newschool.edu) in New York City.

Session 5 - Presentations: Difficult Choices

A. Environmental Justice - Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Law, Director of Environmental Studies, New York University; author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed and Why Our Choices Still Matter (forthcoming) and Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2008)

B. M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) for Our Time? - Russell Hardin, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences; Professor of Politics, New York University

C. Climate Justice and the Struggle to Reduce Industrial Waterfront Vulnerability - Eddie Bautista, Executive Director, NYC Environmental Justice Alliance

D. Designing Solutions - Claire Weisz, Adjunct Associate Professor of Planning, New York University; Founding Principal, Weisz Yoes; team leader, WXY+West 8 (one of ten international teams invited to participate in Rebuild by Design, a multistage design competition tasked with promoting resilience for the Sandy-affected region)

Moderator: Joel Towers, Executive Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design, Parsons The New School for Design



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