He has urban sustainability policy experience as Expert Commissioner for Cities and Climate Change for the World Future Council and demonstrated his relevant research knowledge as member of the Steering Committee of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, Columbia University / Goddard Center and City University New York ( CUNY ).
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He is a member of the following associations : American Society of Civil Engineers ( ASCE ), International Association of Hydrologic Science ( IAHS ), World Conservation Union ( IUCN ), GC Network for Drylands Research and Development ( NDRD ), International Association for Urban Climate ( IAUC ), International Society for Agricultural Meteorology, UK Chinese Association of Resources and Environment, Association of Water and Environment Modeling.
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For example, the former government's first Intelligence and Security Coordinator of the United States described urban resilience as " the capacity to absorb shocks and to bounce back into functioning shape, or at the least, sufficient resilience to prevent . . . system collapse . " Keeping these quotations in mind, bounce-back discourse has been and should continue to be an important part of urban climate resiliency framework.
