Diana Liverman, English-American geographer and academic
Diana Liverman (born May 15, 1954, Accra, Ghana) is Regents Professor of Geography and Development and Director of the School of Geography and Development in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.Liverman studies global environmental change and the impacts of climate on human society, including the effects of drought and famine on society, agriculture, food systems, and vulnerable populations.
She is particularly concerned with adaptation interventions that address climate change, what makes them successful, and when they create or reinforce inequality.
Liverman examines the potential for reducing the effects of climate change and at the same time reaching the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals. In 2010, Liverman received the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, for "encouraging, developing and promoting understanding of the human dimensions of climate change."Liverman was a co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) October 8, 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C.
Liverman was one of 19 scientists worldwide elected to the Earth Commission in 2019.
In 2020, Liverman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Events on 1954
- 13Feb
NCAA Division I
Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game. - 28Feb
NTSC
The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public. - 1Apr
United States Air Force Academy
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. - 25Apr
Bell Labs
The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories. - 18Jun
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état