Shagun Mehrotra is Managing Director of Climate and Cities, an international policy advisor facility at Columbia University”s Center for Climate Systems Research. As a Columbia University Faculty Fellow, he provides research and policy advice focusing on infrastructure economics and finance, development economics and poverty reduction in slums. He has developed a comprehensive framework for city climate risk assessment that combines hazards, vulnerabilities and agency. Previously, Shagun was on the staff of the World Bank, leading infrastructure reform of state-owned utilities in Africa. Over the last decade, his advice has been sought by national and local governments in East Africa, South-East Asia, China and India, as well as the United Nations” Human Development Report, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Columbia Earth Institute. The President of India recently launched Shagun”s co-authored book Bankruptcy to Billions: How the Indian Railways Transformed, with a foreword by the Prime Minister of India.
7 Ebooks por William D. Solecki
Corrie (Arizona State University, US) Griffith & Karen Seto: The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences glo …
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Corrie (Arizona State University, US) Griffith & Karen Seto: The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences glo …
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Parris Adam S. Parris & Sanderson Eric W. Sanderson: Prospects for Resilience
Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban …
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