Publications by authors named "Joel Towers"
Article Synopsis
- The chapter summarizes key themes and findings from the NPCC4 assessment, highlighting important issues and recommendations.
- It offers specific suggestions for future research and strategies to improve climate resiliency.
- Additionally, the chapter outlines broader recommendations for upcoming NPCC activities and identifies critical topics for the next assessment.
Article Synopsis
- - The introduction of NPCC4 highlights the key themes from the first three NPCC Reports, focusing on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in its work and methods.
- - It outlines the assessment process with a stronger focus on ongoing evaluation and improvement.
- - The introduction also previews the different chapters of NPCC4, detailing their objectives and areas of focus.
This chapter of the New York City Panel on Climate Change 4 (NPCC4) report discusses the many intersecting social, ecological, and technological-infrastructure dimensions of New York City (NYC) and their interactions that are critical to address in order to transition to and secure a climate-adapted future for all New Yorkers. The authors provide an assessment of current approaches to "future visioning and scenarios" across community and city-level initiatives and examine diverse dimensions of the NYC urban system to reduce risk and vulnerability and enable a future-adapted NYC. Methods for the integration of community and stakeholder ideas about what would make NYC thrive with scientific and technical information on the possibilities presented by different policies and actions are discussed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNew York City (NYC) faces many challenges in the coming decades due to climate change and its interactions with social vulnerabilities and uneven urban development patterns and processes. This New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) report contributes to the Panel's mandate to advise the city on climate change and provide timely climate risk information that can inform flexible and equitable adaptation pathways that enhance resilience to climate change. This report presents up-to-date scientific information as well as updated sea level rise projections of record.
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