Roads to Resilience: A Primer for Climate Practitioners

America is getting serious about combatting the causes of the climate crisis, adapting to a climate-altered world and building resilience to future climate shocks. The steep increase in the frequency and severity of climate-related disasters over the last decade has been met with fresh approaches, unprecedented resources and an expanded set of stakeholders. America is no longer debating whether to reduce emissions or to adapt to the effects of a changing environment. The nation now recognizes and is acting on the need to do both.

This push to mitigate and adapt has given birth to new federal, regional, Tribal, state and local initiatives and strategies, raised calls for climate justice and demands for industry accountability. These demands for climate action have also spawned new industries, technologies and professions, elevated local frontline organizations and redirected philanthropic investments.

This book, The Road to Resilience: A Primer for Climate Practitioners, is designed to provide would-be and working climate practitioners and professionals with the information, examples and tools they need now to protect lives and property and to develop and implement the plans, programs and practices needed for our nation to survive and thrive.

Kim Haddow is President of Haddow Communications Inc. For the past 25 years as president of Haddow Communications, Inc., Haddow has worked with a broad range of nonprofit organizations on messaging and branding, strategic campaign planning, and opposition management. Haddow is the founder of the Local Solutions Support Center, which works to counter abusive state preemption. Haddow has also worked as the National Communications Director for the Sierra Club and at Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Burns (GMMB), a Washington, DC- based media consulting firm, advising political, initiative and cause-related marketing campaigns. Haddow began her career at WWL-AM in New Orleans where she worked as a reporter, assignment editor and managed the news department.

George Haddow currently serves as Senior Fellow at the Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy (DRLA) at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and previously served as an Adjunct Faculty and Research Scientist, Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, George Washington University in Washington, DC. Prior to joining academia, Haddow worked for eight years in the Office of the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as the White House Liaison and the deputy Chief of Staff. He is a founding partner of Bullock & Haddow LLC, a disaster management consulting firm.