Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Boulter, Sarah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents eighteen case studies of natural disasters from Australia, Europe, North America and developing countries. By comparing the impacts, it seeks to identify what moves people to adapt, which adaptive activities succeed and which fail, and the underlying reasons, and the factors that determine when adaptation is required and when simply bearing the impact may be the more appropriate response. Much has been written about the theory of adaptation and high-level, especially international, policy responses to climate change. This book aims to inform actual adaptation practice - what works, what does not, and why. It explores some of the lessons we can learn from past disasters and the adaptation that takes place after the event in preparation for the next. This volume will be especially useful for researchers and decision makers in policy and government concerned with climate change adaptation, emergency management, disaster risk reduction, environmental policy and planning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107501904
• Artikelnr.: 40121113

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Case Studies from North America: 1. Introduction Jean Palutikof,
David John Karoly, Sarah Boulter and Daniela Guitart; 2. Climate change and
disaster risk management: challenges and opportunities Madeleine C.
Thomson; 3. Hurricane Katrina and the city of New Orleans Andrew W. Garcia;
4. A brief history of flooding and flood control measures along the
Mississippi river basin, USA Timothy M. Kusky; 5. The 2003 and 2007
wildfires in southern California Jon E. Keeley, Alexandra D. Syphard and C.
J. Fotheringham; 6. Adapting to extreme heat events: thirty years of
lessons learned from the Kansas City, Missouri, extreme heat program David
M. Mills and William D. Snook; Part II. Case Studies from Australia: 7.
Drought and water in the Murray-Darling Basin: from disaster policy to
adaptation Linda C. Botterill and Stephen Dovers; 8. After 'Black
Saturday': adapting to bushfires in a changing climate Joshua Whittaker,
John Handmer and David John Karoly; 9. Cyclone Tracy and the road to
improving wind resistant design Matthew Mason, Katharine Haynes and George
Walker; 10. Adaptation and resilience in two flood prone Queensland
communities David King, Armando Apan, Diane Keogh and Melanie Thomas; Part
III. Case Studies from Europe: 11. The most costly natural hazard in
Europe: windstorms Uwe Ulbrich, Gregor C. Leckebusch and Markus G. Donat;
12. The 2003 heat wave: impacts, public health adaptation, and response in
France Mathilde Pascal, Alain Le Tertre and Karine Laaidi; 13. Lessons from
river floods in central Europe, 1997¿2010 Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz; 14.
Lessons learned from the North Sea flooding disaster in the Netherlands,
1953 Pier Vellinga and Jeroen Aerts; Part IV. Case Studies from the
Developing World: 15. Adapting to drought in the West African Sahel Simon
P. J. Batterbury and Michael J. Mortimore; 16. The 2004 Indian Ocean
tsunami: Sri Lankan experience Sam S. L. Hettiarachchi and W. Priyan S.
Dias; 17. Recovery efforts: the case of the 2007 cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh
Bimal K. Paul and Munshi K. Rahman; 18. Coffee, disasters, and
social-ecological resilience in Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico Hallie Eakin,
Helda Morales, Edwin Castellanos, Gustavo Cruz-Bello and Juan F. Barrera;
19. Responding to floods in the Nile Basin: a case study of the 1997/98
floods in the Upper White Nile Marisa C. Goulden and Declan Conway; 20.
Floods in the Yangtze river basin, China Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Jiang Tong
and Su Buda; Part V. Synthesis Chapters: 21. Disasters and development
Jessica Ayers, Saleemul Huq and Sarah Boulter; 22. What next? Climate
change as a game-changer for policy and practice Karen O'Brien and Thomas
E. Downing; 23. Barriers and limits to adaptation: cautionary notes Jon
Barnett, Colette Mortreux and W. Neil Adger; 24. Lessons learned for
adaptation to climate change S. Boulter, J. Palutikof and D. Karoly; 25.
Afterword: floods, storms, fire, and pestilence - disaster risk in
Australia during 2010/11 D. Karoly and S. Boulter.