The Foreign Service Journal, November 2015

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2015 37 of “expeditionary diplomacy,” they argue—designed to help the Senegalese government succeed. The Bullingtons came out of retirement and moved to Senegal when the State Department asked Jim to be Casamance adviser at Embassy Dakar. In the book, they recount their experiences meeting with Senegalese officials, community leaders, rebel groups and refugees, and facilitating economic and humanitar- ian aid for the region. A de facto ceasefire achieved there in 2014 has held, and rebel groups and the government continue to negotiate toward an end to the conflict. James R. Bullington, an FSO for 27 years, served in Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Chad and Benin. He was also dean of the State Department Senior Seminar and served as ambassador to Burundi from 1983 to 1986. Tuy-Cam Bullington was born in Hue, Vietnam, and met Jim there in 1965, while serving as a Foreign Service National employee at the U.S. consulate. Now retired for the second time, the Bullingtons live in Williamsburg, Virginia. Climate Change and Conflict Prevention J. Andrew Plowman, National Intelligence Press, 2015, $14/paperback, 170 pages. In this concise volume, J. Andrew Plowman assesses how climate changes might lead to violent conflicts and how such conflicts might be prevented or mitigated. The study was undertaken during a 2009-2010 research fellowship at the National Intelligence University (then the Center for Strategic Intelligence). Plowman uses the conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan as a case study for the conditions under which the effects of climate changes might propel future conflicts. Based on the Darfur case and on the environmental security literature, he develops a basic model for climate change-related conflicts. Climate change is likely to increase the potential for intrastate and communal conflicts as populations struggle to adjust to changes in the environmental systems that support their liveli- hoods, Plowman argues. What should we be focusing on in the realm of preventive diplomacy? Plowman recommends structural conflict preven- tion by strengthening government institutions and building adaptability to climate change, particularly in fragile and failed states, which are the most vulnerable. Published by the National Intelligence Press, Plowman’s book has been peer-reviewed by senior government officials and outside experts, and would be valuable to anyone interested in the future of climate change-driven conflict. It is also available online at http://ni-u.edu/wp/national-intelligence-press/ globalperspectives. FSO J. Andrew Plowman has served in Peru, Panama, Kazakhstan and Brazil, as well as in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and the former Bureau of Economics, Energy and Business Affairs in Washington, D.C. Living with Climate Change: How Communities Are Surviving and Thriving in a Changing Climate Damon P. Coppola, Jane A. Bullock, George D. Haddow and Kim S. Haddow, Auerbach Publications, 2015, $59.95/paperback, 312 pages. Communities across the United States are already experiencing some of the consequences of a chang- ing climate: rapid rise in sea levels, multi-state wildfires, heat waves and enduring drought. In Living with Climate Change , the authors present the steps cities are taking to protect lives and businesses and to reduce their vulnerability. The authors bring decades of combined experience in the successful design and implementation of community-based risk reduction, adaptation and resilience programs. The result is practical advice on how to plan for and live with a climate that is changing faster and more erratically then predicted. Case studies are used to illustrate smart, effective policies, and their benefits for the economy, the environment and public health are defined. The authors also examine obstacles to local, state and national action on climate change. Damon P. Coppola—whose wife, Mary-Gardner Coppola, is a career FSO—is an emergency management systems engineer who has written several books on emergency management and preparedness. He is a partner at Bullock and Haddow LLC. Jane A. Bullock, a former adjunct professor at the Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management at The George Washington University, is a principal in Bullock and Haddow LLC. George D. Haddow, a principal in Bullock and Haddow LLC, serves on the adjunct faculty for security studies and disaster resilience leadership at Tulane University. Kim S. Haddow specializes in strategic communications for nonprofits.