Climate Change and a Global City Learning from New York

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsCynthia RosenzweigCynthia Rosenzweig is research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where she is leader of the Climate Impacts Group. She is adjunct senior research scientist at the Columbia University Earth Institute and adjunct professor of environmental science at Barnard College. Her research focuses on the potential impacts of environmental change, including increasing carbon dioxide, global warming, and Ei Niño, on regional, national, and global scales. She is lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II Third Assessment Report. She can be contacted at crosenzweig@giss.nasa.gov.William D. SoleckiWilliam D. Solecki is associate professor of geography at Montclair State University. Solecki's research focuses on the human dimensions of global environmental change, land use and land cover change, and environmental risks and hazards. He is a panel member of the Committee on Population and Land Use of the U.S. National Research Council. He also is chair of the Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. He can be contacted at soleckiw@mail.montclair.edu.