TD Walter Bean High School Lecture in the Environment

CAN WE ADAPT TO A MUCH WARMER WORLD?

Exploring the challenges of a climate change ‘hotspot’

2014 TD Walter Bean visiting professor: Diana Liverman

Diana Liverman is the co-director of the Institute of the Environment and Regents Professor in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. She is also visiting professor of Environmental Policy and Development at Oxford University.

Her career has focused on the human dimensions of global environmental change and her main research interests include climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, and climate policy and mitigation especially in the developing world. She also works on the political economy and political ecology of environmental management in the Americas, especially in Mexico. She has led initiatives for US National Academy of Sciences America's Climate Choices study, the ICSU Global Environmental Change and Food Systems project, the Inter-American Institute for Global Change, and the new ICSU Future Earth initiative.