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Presentation and Discussion with Steve Cohen, Author of ‘Understanding Environmental Policy’

Rarely a day goes by that you can't read about an environmental problem in the newspaper. The earth and its inhabitants are facing unique environmental challenges that necessitate bold new ideas and solutions.  Solving these challenges demands an understanding of environmental policy.

Rarely a day goes by that you can’t read about an environmental problem in the newspaper. The earth and its inhabitants are facing unique environmental challenges that necessitate bold new ideas and solutions.  Solving these challenges demands an understanding of environmental policy.

Perhaps now more than ever before solving the world’s environmental problems requires a holistic approach. In Understanding Environmental Policy, Steve Cohen, Executive Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Director of the innovative MPA in Environmental Science and Policy program, illuminates readers with a multidimensional framework for solving environmental challenges. Only by formulating effective policy can we successfully address issues such as New York City’s garbage crisis, toxic waste contamination, or global climate change.  In the book Cohen offers an examination of the political, scientific, technological, organizational, and moral import of several prominent environmental issues.

Author Steve Cohen will given a presentation and entertain questions before a book signing and reception. Read an excerpt from the chapter: “Have We Made the Planet Warmer, and If We Have, How Can We Stop?”

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Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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