Delivering Development: Globalization's Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future by Edward Carr

While visiting West Africa first as an archaeologist, Edward Carr, an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina and author of Delivering Development: Globalization's Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future, found that the villages in which he was working were far more resilient to the impacts of climate change than he expected. Increased frequency of drought, declines in rainfall, severe storms -- these challenges are the sort of thing that can "totally destroy someone's livelihood in a year," he said in an interview with ECSP, "yet they were surviving and surviving really, really well."