Climate + Financial Resilience: Innovative Solutions to Flood Risk – Ep. 2
In the second of a two part series with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Risk Center, we take a deep dive on risk and floods and helping communities find financial resilience as impacts escala...
26 Okt 20211h 5min
Adapting Nantucket Island's Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge to Climate Change: Episode 2
In the second of a two part series, we learn how science and adaptation planning work to help the Coskata-Coatue Haulover Wildlife Refuge on Nantucket Island adapt to climate change. The podcast is jo...
8 Okt 20211h 19min
The Fight for Climate After Covid-19 with Alice Hill
In this episode, Doug Parsons talks with returning guest Alice Hill about her new book, The Fight for Climate After Covid-19. We discuss what inspired her to write the book; how her experiences workin...
27 Sep 202150min
Increasing Financial Resilience to Worsening Floods in the Era of Climate Change with the Wharton Risk Center – Ep. 1
In the first of a two part series with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Risk Center, we take a deep dive on flood risk and helping communities find financial resilience as impacts escalate wit...
13 Sep 202156min
Fundamentals of Wildfire, Land Management and Climate Change with Dr. Brandon Collins of UC Berkeley
Doug Parsons hosts Dr. Brandon Collins, an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and the lead scientist at Berkeley Forests. As wildfires rage in the Western U.S., why are some areas more prone to out of c...
30 Aug 202154min
Extreme Heat Governance and Regulation (or lack of it) with Dr. V. Kelly Turner at UCLA's Luskin School
Doug Parsons talks with Dr. V. Kelly Turner, an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Geography at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Doug and Kelly discuss: the need to create governance a...
16 Aug 202152min
The Majestic Sky Islands in the Desert Southwest – Tales of Adaptation, Border Walls and the elusive Jaguar
America Adapts joins with the Sky Island Alliance to discover conservation in the desert southwest. Learn about the unique Sky Island ecosystems along the U.S., Mexico border. Hear about the unique bi...
1 Aug 20211h 38min
Nantucket Island's Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge: A Brief Ecological and Cultural History and How it's Adapting to Climate Change – Episode 1
Doug Parsons talks history and the ecology of the Coskata-Coatue Haulover Wildlife Refuge on Nantucket Island with The Trustees of Reservations, the nation's first and Massachusetts' largest preserva...
19 Jul 20211h 17min
