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Extreme Weather, Health, and Communities Interdisciplinary Engagement Strategies /

This volume presents a unique interdisciplinary approach, drawing on expertise in both the natural and social sciences. A primary goal is to present a scientific and socially integrated perspective on place-based community engagement, extreme weather, and health. Each year extreme weather is leading...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Steinberg, Sheila Lakshmi (Editor ), Sprigg, William A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Extreme Weather and Society,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Superstorm Sandy: a Game Changer?
  • Extreme Weather: Politics and Public Communication
  • Dust Storms, Human Health and a Global Early Warning System
  • Interdisciplinary Engagement of People and Place around Extreme Weather
  • Engaging Communities to Assess the Health Effects of Extreme Weather in the Arctic
  • Refining the Process of Science Support for Communities around Extreme Weather Events and Climate Impacts
  • Reducing Vulnerability to Extreme Heat through Interdisciplinary Research and Stakeholder Engagement
  • Sociospatial Modeling for climate-based emergencies: Extreme Heat Vulnerability
  • Drought and Health in the Context of Public Engagement
  • Extreme Weather: Mental Health Challenges and Community Response Strategies
  • Extreme Winter: Weaving Weather and Climate into a Narrative through Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Air We Breathe: How Extreme Weather Conditions Harm Us
  • Human Response to and Consequences of the May 22, 2011, Joplin Tornado
  • Approaches for Building Community Resilience to Extreme Heat.