What happens when climate adaptation goes wrong?

Bertie speaks to environmental journalist Stephen Robert Miller about his new book, Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature. Spanning Bangladesh, Japan, and Arizona in the US, it covers the risks involved in adaptating to changing climate and weather, and the deadly costs of poor planning.

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Further reading from Stephen Robert Miller:

• Buy Over the Seawall from Island Press.
• 'When Climate Adaptation Backfires' in Discover Magazine
• 'Why Are We Paying for Crop Failures in the Desert?' in Apocalypse Soon
• '‘White gold’: why shrimp aquaculture is a solution that caused a huge problem' in The Guardian
• 'What Should Farmers Grow in the Desert?' in Mother Jones
• 'Arizona’s water supplies are drying up. How will its farmers survive?' in National Geographic

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