The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 Hardcover 1st Edition by Alice C. Hill

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Author: Hill Alice C.

Edition: 1

Package Dimensions: 25x216x461

Number Of Pages: 272

Release Date: 01-09-2021

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COVID-19 exposed the world’s failure to prepare for the worst — can we learn to build back better?

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit our world on a scale beyond living memory, taking millions of lives and leading to a lockdown of communities worldwide. A pandemic, much like climate change, acts as a threat multiplier, increasing vulnerability to harm, economic impoverishment, and the breakdown of
social systems. Even more concerning, communities severely impacted by the coronavirus still remain vulnerable to other types of hazards, such as those brought by accelerating climate change. The catastrophic risks of pandemics and climate change carry deep uncertainty as to when they will occur,
how they will unfold, and how much damage they will do. The most important question is how we can face these risks to minimize them most.

The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 draws on the troubled and uneven COVID-19 experience to illustrate the critical need to ramp up resilience rapidly and effectively on a global scale. After years of working alongside public health and resilience experts crafting policy to build both pandemic and
climate change preparedness, Alice C. Hill exposes parallels between the underutilized measures that governments should have taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 — such as early action, cross-border planning, and bolstering emergency preparation — and the steps leaders can take now to mitigate
the impacts of climate change. Through practical analyses of current policy and thoughtful guidance for successful climate adaptation,
The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 reveals that, just as our society has transformed itself to meet the challenge of coronavirus, so too will we need to adapt our
thinking and our policies to combat the ever-increasing threat of climate change.

Unapologetic and clear-eyed,
The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 helps us understand why the time has come to prepare for the world as it will be, rather than as it once was.

Review
“It is easy to say that the time to act on climate is now. What Alice Hill has done in this thoughtful and informed volume is clearly assess where we can best make decisions to help our governments, our businesses, and our most vulnerable populations adapt to a warmer and higher risk planet.” —
Sylvia M. Burwell, President of American University and former Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services

“As Alice Hill explains, there is no shortage of actions that governments, communities, and individuals can take to reduce climate risk.
The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 is a must-read for citizens and policy makers interested in building a future resilient to the next disaster.” — Carlos
Curbelo, former US Representative, Florida

“This visionary page-turner offers a policy roadmap for nations and communities to save lives and improve well-being by adapting to our climate change future, even as we work to control it.” — Linda Fried, Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health and Senior Vice President, Columbia University
Medical Center

“In
The Fight for Climate after COVID-19, Alice Hill builds the case for climate adaptation in a clear and engaging way, including useful parallels and lessons from the coronavirus pandemic. This insightful book provides a compelling global look at the climate crisis for decision makers at all
levels.” — Patricia Fuller, Ambassador for Climate Change, Canada

“Alice Hill brings a long lens of scholarly and federal leadership experience to encompass the full landscape of our concurrent disasters, COVID-19 and climate change, and the cascading smaller disasters that have accelerated in frequency and severity over the last several years.
The Fight for

Climate after COVID-19 distills her incredible experience and knowledge into insights that shine a light on the way forward to assure the health and welfare of humankind in the context of an ailing global system.” — Lynn R. G