Universities on Fire

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Is your college prepared for climate change? Bryan Alexander's new book, Universities on Fire, is a structured series of speculations about what that might mean. It's a useful, and sometimes harrowing, reality check. I won't be able to stop thinking about this one for a long time.
-Matt Reed, Inside Higher Ed We all owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Bryan Alexander for his efforts to provide a common framework and scenarios to enable universities leaders to develop proactive strategies and policies to meet current and future climate change challenges. Through his book, Universities on FireBryan has helped to push the climate crisis to the center of higher ed conversations.
-Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed [Universities on Fire] contains much...of value-from how colleges and universities in the United States help the towns they are in to develop environmental plans, to telling us how universities, like Pepperdine University in Southern California, have had to develop extensive fire prevention plans because of the danger that wildfires will sweep through the region.
-University World News Brisk, inspiring, and sobering.
-University Affairs [Alexander] give gives a measured analysis of both the literal and metaphorical fires that the sector faces. He...looks at the difficulties universities might face in a world of mass migration, as ecosystems collapse and species die out, and offers helpful surveys of how universities could respond in their teaching and research, and in their relationships with both local and global communities.
-Times Literary Supplement An unflinching look at how universities and their communities will be impacted by climate change, as well as what universities can do to both mitigate and adapt to a wide variety of climate impacts, from natural disasters to mental trauma.
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