The world needs to adapt to climate change, but how? Former diplomat Arthur Snell explores the geopolitics of climate change, while Susannah Fisher lays out the changes needed to preserve our living planet. Hard choices. Will we sink or swim?
In conversation with James Long.
In Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change and How We Survive It historian and former British diplomat Arthur Snell delivers a comprehensive account of the geopolitics of climate change to reveal the turbulent future we face - and the choices we need to make to avert disaster. In Sink or Swim: How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate, Research Fellow Susannah Fisher tells us about the tough choices on adaptation that lie ahead and looks at ways we can still have a liveable planet later in this century and beyond.
Arthur Snell is an expert on the interaction between geopolitics and climate change with a degree in History from the University of Oxford. He has over 30 years' experience in conflict zones and fragile states throughout the Middle East and Africa and advised governments - including Ukraine during the current conflict - on a range of security- and conflict-related issues. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, the world's oldest think tank, a former British Ambassador, and has hosted numerous podcasts which have had millions of downloads.
Susannah Fisher is a Principal Research Fellow at University College London where she leads an international research programme on climate adaptation. She works as a researcher and advisor supporting governments, cities, and international organisations planning for the impacts of climate change. She has worked on adaptation projects with communities across Europe, South Asia and Africa and was a Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development.
James Long was a BBC TV news correspondent until the end of the 1980’s. After two years starting and running an international TV station out of Zurich, he returned to England to concentrate on writing. He wrote four thrillers then went back to Ferney, a story of love and self-discovery that he had begun many years earlier. More novels followed, including two written under the pseudonym Will Davenport. He moved into historical fiction in 2007 with The Plot Against Pepys, co-written with his eldest son Ben, and the prequel to The Pepys Conspiracy.
