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Schuyler Null

Schuyler Null

Schuyler is a Communications Associate for WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. He helps amplify WRI Ross Center’s global and local experience in urban planning and mobility by working with staff on messaging, communications products and digital strategy.

Schuyler was previously a Writer/Editor at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he edited NewSecurityBeat.org and was the author of "Navigating Complexity: Climate, Migration, and Conflict in a Changing World," a discussion paper for the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation. He has edited and written on environmental security, political demography and maternal health issues, among others.

Schuyler holds a B.A. in Classical Studies from Gettysburg College.

Twitter: @SchuylerNull

  • A Better Model for Future Society, and Analyzing Communal Climate Conflict

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    Reading Radar  //  April 5, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null

    Nature-CCForecasts of future climate conditions are fairly good, but forecasts of future socioeconomic conditions are another story. To get a sense of how climate change will impact society, many resort to simply layering future climate conditions on top of current socioeconomic conditions. That’s a mistake, write Wolfgang Lutz and Raya Muttarak in Nature Climate Change. “We see little value in the purely hypothetical exercise of assessing potential impacts of the future climate on a society that will not exist in the future.”

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  • Top 10 Posts for March 2017

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    What You Are Reading  //  April 4, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null
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    Wilson Center Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman and WWF President and CEO Carter Roberts put their weight behind growing momentum to ensure water stays on the radar for U.S. foreign policymakers in one of last month’s most-read stories.

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  • Mattis Latest in Succession of Senior Military Leaders to Warn About Climate Change

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    March 17, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null
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    This week, newly minted Secretary of Defense James Mattis joined a long list of senior U.S. military leaders who have warned about the national security threats of climate change.

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  • Top 10 Posts for February 2017

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    What You Are Reading  //  March 1, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null
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    John Oldfield called it: last month’s most popular story was once again on the U.S. Global Water Strategy. The Wilson Center’s Sherri Goodman, Ruth Greenspan Bell, and Nausheen Iqbal, like Oldfield before them, urged the new administration to take seriously the development of the strategy, due later this year, and provide “stronger American leadership” on global water issues.

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  • Sherri Goodman: Incorporate Climate Risks into Diplomacy, Development, and Defense

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    Eye On  //  February 16, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null

    “We are seeing floods, droughts, extreme weather events, migration of people across borders, as well as sea-level rise, and we are going to see increasing challenges,” says Wilson Center Senior Fellow Sherri Goodman in an interview with the German think tank, adelphi.

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  • In Remembrance: Hans Rosling’s Incredible Presentations on Global Development Trends

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    Eye On  //  February 9, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null
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    Hans Rosling, the Swedish statistician, global health advocate, and “edutainer,” passed away this week in Uppsala, according to his foundation, Gapminder.

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  • Top 10 Posts for January 2017

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    What You Are Reading  //  February 7, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null
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    The first U.S. Global Water Strategy is due in October, and despite a tumultuous start to the year, the U.S. government shouldn’t let this opportunity to demonstrate global leadership pass, says John Oldfield in last month’s most popular story.

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  • World Economic Forum and OECD on Global Risks and Fragility: Treat the Contagion

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    Reading Radar  //  January 18, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null

    Global-RisksThe World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Risks Report, like other recent analyses of global trends, notes “rising political discontent and disaffection,” but also significant concern for environmental issues. The forum polled 745 leaders, nearly half of whom are from the business community, on the likelihood and impact of various global risks.

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