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Isabel Qi is a doctoral student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley studying climate change adaptation planning and urban political economy of China. Prior to coming to UC Berkeley, she was a coastal planner at the California Coastal Commission, where she developed coastal land use plans with cities and counties in Southern California. She has consulted for the World Resources Institute (WRI) on transportation decarbonization in Hong Kong and has also conducted research on China's eco-cities. She holds a Master of Planning degree from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science degree in climate sciences and geography from UCLA.