Routledge Collaborating for Climate Resilience: Collaborating for Action (Giving Voice to Values)

Supporters of environmental well-being and climate resilience are awakening and mobilizing – cities, states, business, academia, community-based organizations, and the military. They understand the imminent and long-term risks of climate deterioration and they are creating new structures beyond the top-down government policy efforts of the past. This highly practical book provides a clear insight into these collaborative solutions by real organizations in real time. It demonstrates how people from disparate fields and stakeholders cooperate to address climate issues at ground level and reveals how this can be undertaken effectively. Through case studies of key organizations such as the NYC Sustainability Office, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, IBM, and West Point Military Academy, readers will understand each party’s role in a cooperative enterprise and the means by which they support climate resiliency, their institutional goals, and their communities. Of particular value, the book illustrates the co-benefits of multi-party resilience planning: faster approval times; reduced litigation; ability to monetize benefits such as positive health outcomes; the economic benefits of cooperation (for example, capacity building through financing climate planning and resilience across public, private, and other sources of funding); and developing a shared perspective. The book will be of great interest to business managers, policymakers, and community leaders involved in combating climate change, and researchers and students of business, public affairs, policy, environment, climate, and urban studies. Review "This inspiring book points the way to a new kind of governance: collaborative, problem-solving, creative, and long-term oriented. Climate change is a complex crisis requiring deep and sustained changes across society – in how we produce and use energy, protect nature, adapt to environmental stresses, and ensure social justice. As described in the inspiring case studies, stakeholders across society are joining together to chart the way ahead. This book gives hope, guidance, and direction for the future." - Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University President, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, author of The Age of Sustainable Development "This book will be a must read for anyone working on climate resilience, providing critical insights into how to achieve our climate goals and preserve our communities, using collaboration and partnerships as key tools. Through practical case studies, the authors take the reader into key communities, from New York City to the West Point Military Academy, that are tackling their climate challenges, through collaboration, shared decision-making, and smart use of big data."- Sherri Goodman, Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security), Secretary-General, International Military Council on Climate & Security "As I've observed over and over again in my career working with diverse entities--government, companies, nonprofit organizations--it can be a daunting task to resolve differences on a clean economy in the face of climate change. This book offers superb examples of real-life parties who accomplished this essential feat to save the planet." - Jigar Shah, Founder of SunEdison, co-Founder of Generate Capital, author of Creating Climate Wealth "This book comes at a moment of consensus among advocates that there will not be effective climate policies until diverse stakeholders seek alignment on climate issues where they can, and also acknowledge their conflicting views and remedies. Collaboration is the watchword and Mesa and Goodman offer a guide to how untraditional partners have convened to achieve beneficial climate objectives." - Peggy M. Shepard, executive director, co-founder, WE ACT For Environmental Justice "Climate change has been politically divisive at the nation