Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation

Herausgeber: Barros, Vicente; Stocker, Thomas F.; Field, Christopher B.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Invaluable assessment for anyone interested in climate extremes, environmental disasters and adaptation to climate change including policymakers, the private sector and academic researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 594
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1735g
• ISBN-13: 9781107025066
• ISBN-10: 1107025060
• Artikelnr.: 35497817

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Summary for policymakers
1. Climate change: new dimensions in disaster risk, exposure, vulnerability and resilience
2. Determinants of risk: exposure and vulnerability
3. Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment
4. Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems
5. Managing the risks from climate extremes at the local level
6. National systems for managing the risks from climate extremes and disasters
7. Managing the risks: international level and integration across scales
8. Toward a sustainable and resilient future
9. Case studies
Annex I. Authors and expert reviewers
Annex II. Glossary of terms
Annex III. Acronyms
Annex IV. List of major IPCC reports
Index.