Rethinking Readiness: A Talk with Columbia Climate School's Jeff Schlegelmilch

Pandemics. Climate change. Infrastructure collapse. Cyberattacks. Nuclear conflict. How can we prepare for and prevent the 21st-century disasters on the horizon?

The book "Rethinking Readiness" offers an expert introduction to human-made threats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on opportunities to reimagine how we approach disaster preparedness.

In an event sponsored by the Santiago Center and the Institute for Disaster Resilience (Itrend), the book's author, Jeff Schlegelmilch, who is the Director of Columbia Climate School's National Center for Disaster Preparedness, has a conversation on the matter with Magdalena Gil (GSAS´16), Itrend Associate and researcher at the National Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN).