Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Cities

David C. Major received the Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He has been a faculty member at MIT and at Clark University, a long-time Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University (now retired), and a visiting scholar at the Universities of Cambridge, England and Roorkee, India. Most recently he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His principal scientific research focus is the adaptation of coastal cities and towns, large and small, to climate change. Dr. Major is the author, co-author or co-editor of seventeen books on water resources, climate change, history and literature.

Professor Juhola received her PhD from the University of East Anglia, UK, and has worked in Japan, Sweden and Finland. She leads the Urban Environmental Policy Group at the University of Helsinki and is a guest professor at Linköping University in Sweden. Her research interests focus on governance and decision-making, climate change policy and climate risk. She is a member of the Climate Panel of Finland that advises the Finnish Government on climate change policy.