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The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We LiveGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta , GA Free event This book series is an ideal introduction to climate change and cities for students, policy makers, and the general reader to gain insight into an issue critical to the future of our cities and the people that live in them. This book series will explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities.
Instructors: Brian Stone Brian Stone teaches in the areas of urban environmental planning, integrated land use and transportation planning, and planning history and theory. Stone's program of research is focused on the spatial drivers of urban environmental phenomena, with an emphasis on air quality and climate change, and is supported through funding from the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among other funding institutions. He is Director of the Urban Climate Lab at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty, he taught in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Stone's work on urbanization and climate change recently has been featured on CNN, National Public Radio, and in print media outlets such as Forbes and USA Today. He is author of the forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press, The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live. Stone holds degrees in environmental management and planning from Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. (2 Ratings)
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