CAN WE ADAPT TO A MUCH WARMER WORLD?
Exploring the challenges of a climate change "hotspot"
With development support from IC3, students from seven high schools gathered at Hagey Hall on Thursday, March 20 to learn about climate change adaptation from visiting professor Dr. Diana Liverman, co-director of the University of Arizona Institute of the Environment.
This year marks the 17th TD Walter Bean Professorship in the Environment, which was created to honour Walter Bean, a man who dedicated his life to community involvement and the environment in Waterloo Region.
Liverman asked the question: Can we adapt to a much warmer world?
The 200 students in attendance were intrigued by this issue and engaged some thoughtful discussions at the end of the presentation.
TD Walter Bean Lecturer: Professor Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman is the co-director of the Institute of the Environment, Regents Professor in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona and visiting professor of Environmental Policy and Development at Oxford University. Her career has focused on the human dimensions of global environmental change: 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.