The Climate Resilient Organization: Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes by Martina K. Linnenluecke and Andrew Griffiths

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Climate change is one of the most significant, defining challenges facing 21^st century society for countries and communities alike. An unstable climate ushers in the risk of destructive storms, destabilizing weather norms, and a litany of impacts on every facet of human life. It is in this context and urgency that Martina Linnenluecke and Andrew Griffiths offer their book, The Climate Resilient Organization: Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes.

Linnenluecke and Griffiths undertake two ambitious projects. First, they aim to provide a thorough account of the basics of climate change research, international and domestic policy responses, and the potential implications for organizations of all stripes. They then turn their attention towards more pragmatic questions of organizational resilience in the face of a changing climate by laying out a variety of possible tools and a range of considerations that ought to be brought to the forefront. This impressive scope lends the book simultaneous challenges and strengths. Although leading the volume to a somewhat underdefined audience and a corresponding focus problem, it provides a comprehensive, concisely developed, and eminently useful account of many of the essential aspects of climate change, its history, and its policy landscape.