Rotterdam, The Netherlands – How can a major seaport city thriftily bolster its defences against a growing onslaught of costly climate risks while reaping economic benefits and making itself more livable? Rotterdam’s approach has been to start with a comprehensive risk-and-damage assessment of long-term climate threats and then adopt a broad systems approach to improving […]
Author Archives: John J. Berger
John J. Berger, Ph.D., is an energy and environmental policy specialist and Senior Researcher at the Pacific Institute of Oakland, California. He has been a university professor, and consultant to businesses, utilities, foundations, government (including the U.S. Congress), and the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. His ten previous books include Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis (2014), which won the 2015 International Book Award for Science. Dr. Berger holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from UC Davis, a Master’s in Energy and Resources from U.C. Berkeley, and a bachelor’s in political science from Stanford University. He lives in El Cerrito, California.
