Delina Gives Lecture on Rapid Climate Mitigation at RISD

Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a lecture titled “Wartime Mobilisation and Rapid Climate Change” hosted by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies program. The lecture was based in large part on Delina’s first book, Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation (Routledge 2016), which explores whether the rapid mobilization among countries in preparation for World War II is an appropriate analogy for the scale and speed required for an effective response to the transnational threat of climate change in the 21st century.

As a post-doctoral associate at the Pardee Center, Delina leads an interdisciplinary research project exploring the plausible pathways for achieving energy security in developing countries. The project has led to one of his recent books, Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transition(s) in Developing Countries: The challenges of climate change and sustainable development (Routledge 2017), which explores how transitions away from carbon-based fuel sources to renewables occur in fourteen different developing countries.

Delina will give a talk on his most recent book, Climate Actions: Transformative Mechanisms for Social Mobilisation (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), at the Pardee Center on Thursday, January 31, 2019 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm. Click here to RSVP.