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Climate change poses a host of challenges for American cities, ranging from what trees to plant, to increases in heat-related deaths, to critical infrastructure protection in the face of increasingly severe weather events. And it is an open question as to whether American city governments have the organizational capacity, resources, and political will, to engage in the type of long-term planning that climate change will require.

 

In these lecture series students, faculty and staff will participate in discussions relating to topics regarding effects of climate change from city officials and experts from three very large, though otherwise quite different, American cities: Philadelphia, San Diego, and Phoenix.