Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change

Around the world, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly "the new normal" and are expected to increase in the 21st century as a result of climate change. Extreme weather events have devastating impacts on human lives and national economies. This book examines ways to protect peop...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Singh, Ashbindu (Editor ), Zommers, Zinta (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Temas:
Environment.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Electric power production.
Environmental Sciences.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Electrical Power Engineering.
Mechanical Power Engineering.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Impact of Climate Change on Natural Disasters
  • Chapter 2: Challenges in Early Warning of the Persistent and Widespread Winter Fog over the Indo-Gangetic Plains: A Satellite Perspective
  • Chapter 3: Assessing human vulnerability to climate change from an evolutionary perspective
  • Chapter 4: Early Warning Systems Defined
  • Chapter 5: The State of Early Warning Systems
  • Chapter 6: Climate Change and Early Warning Systems for Wildland Fire
  • Chapter 7: Climate Change Implications and Use of Early Warning Systems for Global Dust Storms
  • Chapter 8: Applications of Medium Range Probabilistic Flood Forecast for Societal Benefits - Lessons Learned from Bangladesh
  • Chapter 9: Flood forecasting and early warning: an example from the UK Environment Agency
  • Chapter 10: The Evolution of Kenya's Drought Management System
  • Chapter 11: Understanding the warning process through the lens of practice: emancipation as a condition of action. Some lessons from France
  • Chapter 12: The Effect of Early Flood Warnings on Mitigation and Recovery during the 2010 Pakistan Floods
  • Chapter 13: Disasters are gendered: what's new?
  • Chapter 14: The Ethics of Early Warning Systems for Climate Change
  • Chapter 15: Decadal Warning Systems
  • Chapter 16: The role of scientific modelling and insurance in providing innovative solutions for managing the risk of natural disasters
  • Chapter 17: "Follow the spiders": Ecosystems as Early Warnings
  • Chapter 18: Natural hazards and Climate Change in Kenya: Minimizing the impacts on vulnerable communities through Early Warning Systems.     .

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