Climate Preservation in Urban Communities Case Studies

Woodrow W. Clark, II, MA3 , PhD, is an internationally recognized scholar and expert in economics, renewable energy, sustainability, and sustainable communities. He was a contributing scientist to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNIPCC), which as an organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2007 along with Al Gore and his film “An Inconvenient Truth."Clark is an internationally recognized, respected expert, author, lecturer, public speaker and consultant on global and local solutions to climate change. His core focus is on economics for smart green communities. During the 1990s, he was Manager of Strategic Planning for Technology Transfer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with University of California and U.S. Department of Energy. He was one of the contributing scientists for United Nations Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC), awarded 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and Researcher for UN FCCC.From 2000-2003, Clark was Advisor, Renewable Energy, Emerging Technologies & Finance to California Governor Gray Davis. After the “recall” in 2004, Clark founded, and manages Clark Strategic Partners (CSP), a global environmental, policy and economics renewable energy consulting firm. Also 2015-2018, Clark taught courses at University of International Relations (UIR) in Beijing and lectured on “Environment Economics” Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (April 2017). He was appointed (July 2016) to be a member of the Editorial Board for the Energy Review Journal (ERJ) in China. He was selected to be a member of the UN B20 Finance Task Force supported in 2016 by China. Clark teaches and lectures in the EU, especially Denmark and Italy.Clark published 12 books by the end of 2017 and over 70 peer-reviewed articles, which reflect his concern for global sustainable green communities. He has authored and edited books are The Next Economics (Springer, 2012) and Global Sustainable Communities Handbook (Elsevier, 2014). In addition, his latest coauthored books, with Grant Cooke, are The Green Industrial Revolution (Elsevier, 2014), Green Development Paradigm (in Mandarin, 2015) and Smart Green Cities (Routledge, February 2016). In 2017, Clark had three (3) books published, 2nd Ed of his first book: Agile Energy Systems: Global Systems (Elsevier Press) and 2nd Ed of Sustainable Communities Design Handbook (Elsevier Press 2017).Three more books are planned in 2018, including Climate Preservation (Elsevier Press); 2nd Ed of Qualitative Economics: The Next Economics (Springer Press) and Qualitative and Quantitative Economics (Q2E) for Palgrave Press, Clark created Clark Mass Media Company (CM2C) from his media company in San Francisco 3 decades ago that now distributes documentary and dramatic series on economic, political, climate, environmental and social issues. He earned three MA degrees from universities in Illinois and his Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley,and in 2017, his PhD thesis was updated into a book on Violence in Schools, Colleges and Universities,Contact: wwclark13@gmail.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/woodrow-w-clark-ii-b6962214https://bschool.pepperdine.edu/about/people/faculty/woodrow-clark-economics-research-professor/

• 1. Introduction: Smart Green Healthy Communities Are Now the Future2. Agile Power Systems for Everyone: On-Site Distributed and Central Grid Systems3. Integrated Cross-Disciplinary Studies: Circular Economics With Cases in Japan4. Infrastructures for Green, Smart and Healthy Communities5. Policies, Partnerships and Plans: Case of China6. Interactionism in Everyday Community Life7. Finance, Economics, and Sustainability8. National Solutions at Local Levels: Case of Japan9. Smart Green Healthy Communities: Cases of Science Parks and Microcities10. Overview of Global Urban Cities11. Conclusion: The Global Green Paradigm ShiftAppendix: Smart Community and City Environmental Responsibility (C2ER) With Green Computing

"Dr. Clark has leveraged decades of international research to bring an essential focus on climate preservation. This book is an up-to-date and relevant compilation of thought leadership and cases drawn from technology, science, and economics. Policy makers in California would take heed to read this book as the need to foster green, smart and healthy communities is greater than ever." --David M. Smith, PhD, Associate Provost, Interim Department Chair, Economics, Marketing, Law, Pepperdine University"A must read book for anyone interested in understanding the issues that climate change poses for urban communities. The range of topics covered is excellent and the associated content provides valuable insights into the challenges and solutions for creating urban sustainable communities." --James R. Barth, PhD., Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance, Auburn University, Senior Finance, Fellow, Milken Institute, Santa Monica, CA, Fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, Co-Editor of Journal of Financial Economic Policy