Climate Crisis Management

Ongoing climate change has precipitated a broad range of crises including extreme weather, fires, droughts, crop-failures, and emerging infections along with a broad range of health effects. Within recent years these events have become more frequent and more severe highlighting a critical need for crisis assessment and management. This seminar will focus on the principles involved in the effective preparation, prevention, mitigation, leadership, management, and recovery from these climate-driven disasters. We will emphasize the importance of resilience in organizations and teams. We will discuss how these principles may be generalized to other examples of crisis management. Class time will be devoted to didactic and Socratic interactions with experts, analysis of case studies including the experience of the Red Cross, simulation exercises, and field trips.