Bradford Seminar: “North: The Future of Post-Climate America”
Jesse Keenan, professor for Tulane University, will present “North: The Future of Post-Climate America.” This seminar will be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to all).
Keenan is the Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning, Director of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism, and Director of the Climate Change Science and Practice program at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA). His research focuses on the intersection of climate change adaptation and the built environment, including aspects of applied science, policy, and planning.
Keenan formerly served as the Director and Area Head for Real Estate and Built Environment on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design; Fellow of Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and as the Research Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate on the faculty of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Keenan has served as a member of the IPCC and three consecutive U.S. National Climate Assessments; led climate research teams at the Federal Reserve and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; served as an advisor on climate policy for the Governors of California and Massachusetts; testified and briefed Congress on various climate-related issues; served as Chair of the U.S. Community Resilience Panel for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems under the Obama White House; and has served various federal details, including as a Senior Economist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers where he supported interagency climate and national security activities, including the development of the National Resilience Strategy and the U.S. National Adaptation Plan.
Keenan’s books include Blue Dunes: Climate Change By Design (Columbia University Press, 2017), Climate Adaptation Finance and Investment in California (Routledge, 2018), and North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Oxford University Press, 2025).
This event is part of the David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series organized by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).
Bradford Seminar: “North: The Future of Post-Climate America”
Event Date
Mon, Oct 12, 2026 ・ 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Location
300 Wallace Hall; Online via Media Central Live
Jesse Keenan, professor for Tulane University, will present “North: The Future of Post-Climate America.” This seminar will be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to all).
Keenan is the Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning, Director of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism, and Director of the Climate Change Science and Practice program at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA). His research focuses on the intersection of climate change adaptation and the built environment, including aspects of applied science, policy, and planning.
Keenan formerly served as the Director and Area Head for Real Estate and Built Environment on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design; Fellow of Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and as the Research Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate on the faculty of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Keenan has served as a member of the IPCC and three consecutive U.S. National Climate Assessments; led climate research teams at the Federal Reserve and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; served as an advisor on climate policy for the Governors of California and Massachusetts; testified and briefed Congress on various climate-related issues; served as Chair of the U.S. Community Resilience Panel for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems under the Obama White House; and has served various federal details, including as a Senior Economist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers where he supported interagency climate and national security activities, including the development of the National Resilience Strategy and the U.S. National Adaptation Plan.
Keenan’s books include Blue Dunes: Climate Change By Design (Columbia University Press, 2017), Climate Adaptation Finance and Investment in California (Routledge, 2018), and North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Oxford University Press, 2025).
This event is part of the David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series organized by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).
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