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Alice Hill served at the White House as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Senior Director for Resilience Policy on the National Security Council. As a member of Obama's climate team, Hill led the creation of national policy regarding catastrophic risk, including the impacts of climate change. Hill previously served as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, as an ex-officio member of the Third National Climate Assessment, a supervising judge in California, and as chief of the white-collar crime unit in the Los Angeles US Attorney's Office. Leonardo Martinez-Diaz is Director of the Sustainable Finance Center at the World Resources Institute, where he leads the Center's work to help drive finance into activities that promote sustainability and combat climate change. During the Obama Administration, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Environment at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, representing the United States in international climate negotiations and multilateral bodies. He is the author of Globalizing in Hard Times: The Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World (Cornell, 2009) and co-editor, with Ngaire Woods, of Networks of Influence? Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2009).
"""Climate change has already produced harmful effects, and further change is inevitable, say the authors. They outline potential solutions DS some gradual and others more 'revolutionary' DS being tested around the world while profiling some of the officials involved in these efforts."" -- Survival: Global Politics and Strategy ""In Building a Resilient Tomorrow, Hill and Martinez-Diaz discuss the practical aspects of how to prepare communities for climate change.... Pragmatists over alarmists, they don't linger on doomsday scenarios or retread the debate about whether climate change is real. Instead, using sharply curated global and domestic policy examples and stories, they offer applied strategies that communities, governments, and private companies can use to ready society for the new extremes caused by a changing climate."" -- Leslie Erdelack, Health Affairs ""If you, like any sensible person, are worried about the effects of climate change, this book may be a boon. Hill and Martinez-Diaz state their thesis early; resilience is possible, but it's not accidental. There is hope; for every extreme weather event that lives on in names like ""Katrina"", ""Irma"" and ""Sandy"", there are stories of communities taking action, sometimes relocating to safer places and certainly planning for their futures. Utilising their shared career experience in US government, Hill and Martinez-Diaz, set out clear discussion points and recommendations at the end of each chapter. This thoroughly accessible book gives readers food for thought and the realisation that, while we won't stop extreme weather events, we can deal with them - perhaps not today, but definitely tomorrow."" -- Claire Looby, The Irish Times ""As we race to awaken conscience and countries to meet an existential challenge, building resilience is an urgent and underappreciated part of the fight against global climate change. This timely and important book, by deeply knowledgeable veterans of that fight, offers practical ideas and lessons on how to do it and each story underscores a reality with which the world must reckon now ""--Former Secretary of State John Kerry ""Climate change is real and Building a Resilient Tomorrow illustrates what it looks like and what we can do about it by building up resilience, even while we work to cut emissions. This is exactly the kind of honesty and sobriety that is needed to confront this unique challenge and to build consensus in favor of viable solutions.""--Former Congressman CARLOS CURBELO, South Florida ""One aspect of solving the climate crisis is preparation for the calamities ahead that emissions have already set in motion. Alice Hill sees critical dimensions of the resiliency imperative, and with Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, has written an important book.""--U.S. Senator SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D), Rhode Island ""This is an essential guide for policymakers at all levels. All of us who exist on this warming planet should heed its warnings about the need to incorpoate resilience into our community planning, beginning today.""--JANET NAPOLITANO, President, University of California ""At a time when volatility and change are the only certainties, we must find ways to build resilience. This important book, focused on the United States but informed by global insights, tackles the central challenge of climate resilience.""--ADRIENNE ARSHT, Executive Vice Chair, Atlantic Council ""Climate Change is no longer far-off hypothetical-the time for solutions is now. This book offers a comprehensive, yet fine-grained guide to help all of us better face the forthcoming climate disruption.""--CRAIG FUGATE, Former FEMA Administrator ""Building a Resilient Tomorrow is an important, unique, and useful guide for learning how to build in resilience and cope with the real and increasing impacts of climate change.""--Former Secretary of State GEORGE P. SHULTZ"
