The Challenge of Adapting to Climate Change: King County Brings Local Action to a Global Threat Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

This public event guide puts students in the shoes of King County Executive Ron Sims, the top elected official in the largest and most diverse county in Washington state. 2005, Sims and willing to take a high profile role of leadership on climate change issue locally and on the national stage, to address the almost unexplored area of ​​"adaptation," prepared at the local level to the effects of climate change is considered inevitable. In addition to addressing specific issues general guidance how to navigate the difficult intersection of politics and science, how to think about the uncertainty of how to make an argument for long-term investment, how to be effective at the local and national stage, it has the advantage of introducing readers to compelling contemporary social problems, no doubt to grow in relevance in the world. Body parts of an array of considerations that went into the decision to take the Sims adjustment problems, including a summary of the simultaneous local discussion on the development of a new wastewater treatment plant to deliver treated water customers in the future, if necessary. HKS Case Number 1906.0 "Hide
by Pamela Varley, John D. Donahue, 16 pages. Publication Date: June 16, 2009. Prod. #: HKS107-PDF-ENG

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