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With Houston still reeling from Hurricane Harvey, Irma causing massive havoc in the Caribbean, and more storms on the way, I thought it would be timely and interesting to speak with my guest today, Maria Ivanova
Maria Ivanova is an academic who straddles the university and policy worlds to help think through the connections between human security, environmental stresses and global governance–that is, the mechanisms that the international community and beyond have designed to deal with environmental challenges.
In this conversation she helps put the onslaught of these hurricanes into a kind of broader global context that addresses how the international community might more productively organize itself to confront the realities of climate change.
Maria is a Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston.
She is also Ambassador for the New Shape Prize of the Global Challenges Foundation. This is a $5 million prize that will be awarded next year to “the best ideas that re-envision global governance for the 21st century.” Toward the end of this conversation we discuss what exactly that means.
If you have 20 minutes and want to learn how the international community can better approach storms, disasters, climate change, then have a listen.
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