It is with great sadness that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt of the sudden death of JoAnn Carmin on 15th July 2014.
Professor Carmin was a Lead Author of Chapter 14 on “Adaptation needs and options” of the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. She was an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an internationally-renowned scholar of the institutional and societal dimensions of environmental governance. Her research focused on urban climate adaptation with particular attention to the question of why cities pursue climate adaptation planning, how adaptation activities are mainstreamed, and in what ways local.
JoAnn Carmin will be greatly missed by her colleagues and fellow authors in the IPCC.
The MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning has created a page on their website for people to leave remembrances about JoAnn. Please click here to see the MIT webpage.