There is a huge economy tied to climate change, and government officials, academics, engineers and contractors all are part of it, says Jesse Keenan, a social scientist on the faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and JFK School of Government in Science, Technology and Public Policy. He spoke Nov. 22 at the Building Climate Resilience into Infrastructure at a Climate Adaptation forum hosted by the Environmental Business Council of New England and the University of Massachusetts’ Sustainable Solutions Lab.
The half-day quarterly forum addressed how to incorporate climate resilience into planning, financing and maintaining infrastructure systems. The importance of multidisciplinary collaboration between governmental, academic, professional and community organizations was a common theme.