Dyson College's ird Summit on Resilience
Keynote Speaker and Scholar-
in-Residence: Peter Gleick,
president emeritus and chief
scientist, Pacific Institute.
Signature
Event
The local and Global Challenge
Other featured speakers were Michael
Berkowitz, president, 100 Resilient Cities
at the Rockefeller Foundation, and Jon
Freedman, VP global partnerships and policy,
GE Water & Process Technologies. Panel
participants hailed from the Asia-Pacific
Centre for Environmental Law, Singapore;
the Billion Oyster Project at the New York
Harbor Foundation; the Bronx River Alliance;
and Columbia University's Water Center, as
well as other influential agencies.
Presented by Dyson College and the Dyson
College Institute for Sustainability and
the Environment, this was the third in a
biannual conference series about resiliency.
Previous summits focused upon the aermath
of Hurricane Sandy and public-private
partnerships. e conference was held on the
New York City campus and open to the public.
A video playlist of the day's highlights is
available on the Dyson College YouTube
channel, and a series of papers about
resiliency, water resources and use will be
published by the Journal of Environmental
Studies and Science.
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