Greg Characklis is Director of the Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems at the University of North Carolina.
In this episode Greg explains the financial risk to society from variability and uncertainty in the environment such as floods, droughts, extreme temperatures, and storms. He discusses the increased attention on the risk from lenders, investors, insurance companies, and credit agencies, and how a variety of traditional and innovative tools can be used to manage financial risk. Greg talks about situations of financial risk in water around the country including the Great Lakes, Mississippi River, and Central Valley in California.
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