Check out my newest post at the WWF Climate Prep blog: In the Heat of the Moment, discussing recently released evidence on the connection between heat and violence, and implications for society and security under climate change.
Shout out to UC Berkeley professors Sol Hsiang - now teaching at my alma mater the Goldman School of Public Policy - and CEGA's Ted Miguel for their great research on these topics!
CEGA is the Center for Effective Global Action, which focuses on using quantitative impact evaluation methods to improve results of poverty alleviation programs in the international development field. When I was at GSPP I took a student-led course on impact evaluation, taught by students working at CEGA, and the problems we addressed were along the lines of how to ethically roll out an experimental vaccination or disease testing program. It's great to see those big brains being bent to the task of assessing possible disparate climate change impacts on CEGA's constituency-- the world's poorest communities.
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Update: WWF's ClimatePrep blog apparently went defunct in 2018 and may not be revived. I'm updating this blog's links to ClimatePrep to snapshots on Archive.org (where available). Some articles look OK there, some not so OK. For a readable version with images intact, see my ClimatePrep articles as reconstructed on this blog:
• Head in the Clouds: The Dream of Harvesting Water from Fog
June 08, 2017
• Story Maps: A Rising Star of Climate Change Communication
April 10, 2017
• The Sea Level Rise Solution that is as Charismatic as Mud
February 17, 2017
• The Internet of Water - October 31, 2016
• Sea Level Rise Seen with New Eyes: the OWLs of San Mateo
August 30, 2016
• California: The Rebeavering
May 22, 2015
• Government Folly in the Face of Climate Change
March 19, 2015
• In the Heat of the Moment
December 02, 2014
• California’s Adaptation Clarion Call
September 02, 2014
• Farmland in Flux
July 8, 2014
• Honest Conversations: Climate Change and Uncertainty
December 12, 2013
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
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