Webinar: Climate Action Planning

Wednesday, 7 August 2019 - 1:15pm

Climate Action Planning is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community’s greenhouse gas emissions and increase the resilience of communities against climate change impacts. This fully revised and expanded edition goes well beyond climate action plans to examine the mix of policy and planning instruments available to every community. Boswell, Greve, and Seale also look at process and communication: How does a community bring diverse voices to the table? What do recent examples and research tell us about successful communication strategies?

In a webinar with the Security and Sustainability Forum, the panelists will discuss the state of art, science, and practice in local climate action planning. Webinar is sponsored by Island Press and Cadmus Group

Meet the Panelists:

  • Tammy L. Seale is an Associate Principal at PlaceWorks, where she directs the firm's Climate Action and Resiliency Practice. She is a leader in the field of local climate action and resiliency planning with over 25 years of local environmental and land use planning experience. She collaborates with communities to address sustainability, climate change, and resiliency, holistically in local environmental and land use plans and implementation programs.
  • Adrienne I. Greve is Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She led studio courses that assisted California communities in preparing climate action plans and continues to develop curricula for integrating climate action planning throughout the planning program.
  • Sabine O’Hara is Dean and Director of Landgrant Programs for the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences (CAUSES) of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). She is responsible for academic, research and community outreach programs in the tradition of land-grant universities. Sabine is leading UDC’s efforts for building a cutting edge model for urban agriculture that improves the quality of life and economic opportunity for urban populations