Hannah Lee on Environmental Engineering and Interdisciplinarity

Topic: Environmental Engineering, Consilience, Inter-disciplinarity, and Climate Adaptation

Field and Institution: Engineering, Harvard University

Bio: Hannah Lee is a PhD student in the environmental engineering department at Harvard University. A graduate of the Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Hannah was also the second Editor-in-Chief of Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development.

Links to Books and Articles mentioned:

1. (UK Govt: February 2011) Report: “Infrastructure, Engineering and Climate Change Adaptation – ensuring services in an uncertain future” LINK
2. Red Cross 2010, “World Disaster Report 2010” (Chapter 6: Urbanization and Climate Change Risk) LINK
3. 2009 UN Habitat Report: “Planning Sustainable Cities” LINK
4. 2007 Heinz Report: “A Survey of Climate Adaptation Planning” LINK
5. IPCC Report AR5: Climate Change 2013: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (released March 2014) LINK. Also upcoming work on a Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (LINK)
6. CEQ October 14, 2010 Report: LINK
7. Munich Re Report on Disasters: LINK

Links to Innovative Cities’ Work:

• The Harvard 2011 Engineering/Urban Planning Brazil Field Course
• Favela Upgrades: One architect’s example work (Gabriel Duarte): LINK
• Masdar City
• Thames Barrier, England
• Netherlands (Washington Post slideshow)
• Tianjin Eco-City (govt website) (photos)
• Recent NYC MOMA exhibit on showing how rising tides will effect NYC! (fun photos)

Hannah’s Top Five Blogs:

• Fight Entropy
• NY Times Room for Debate
• FP Passport
• INSEAD
• Talking Points Memo

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Intro/Outro music: Basspartout, “New Horizons,” AudioJungle.

Interlude: Frank Sinatra “The Girl from Ipanema”

Jisung Park

Jisung is Founder and Co-Director of Sense & Sustainability, and Host of the S&S Podcast. He is currently a PhD Candidate in the Economics Department at Harvard University, where he is an NSF Fellow and a Harvard Environmental Economics Fellow.