Professor Catherine Gautier has written a new book, Oil, Water, and Climate, which has just been released by Cambridge University Press. According to the press release, “Today’s oil and gas are at record prices, whilst global energy demand is increasing from population and economic development pressures. Climate change, resulting in large part from the burning of fossil fuels, is exacerbating the impacts of the accelerated exploitation of our natural resources. Therefore, anxieties over energy, water, and climate security are at an all-time high. Global action is needed now in order to address this set of urgent challenges and to avoid putting the future of our civilization at risk. This book examines the powerful interconnections that link energy, water, climate, and population, exploring viable options in addressing these issues collectively. Difficult political decisions and major reforms in resource governance, policies, market forces, and use are needed and this book provides excellent introductory material to begin to understand and to address these problems.”
Professor Gautier has received several degrees from the University of Paris, including a BS in Physics and Chemistry in 1968, an MS in Physics in 1970, an MS in Geophysics in 1972, a PhD in Physics in 1976, and a Doctorat d’Etat in Physics and Meteorology in 1984. Her research interests include global radiation and water, El Niño, clouds, aerosol and climate, global remote sensing, and earth system science education. Dr. Gautier jointed the UCSB Department of Geography in 1990, and she is the former director and principal investigator at the Institute of Computational Earth System Science and current head of the Earth Space Research Group at UCSB. For more, see https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/~gautier/Index1.html.
