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

Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Herausgeber: Field, Christopher B; Dahe, Qin; Stocker, Thomas F; Barros, Vicente

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Produktbeschreibung

Extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposed and vulnerable human and natural systems, can lead to disasters. This report explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate change adaptation. It consists of nine chapters, covering risk management; observed and projected changes in extreme weather and climate events; exposure and vulnerability to as well as losses resulting from such events; adaptation options from the local to the international scale; the role of sustainable development in modulating risks; and insights from specific case studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 289mm x 217mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1661g
• ISBN-13: 9781107607804
• ISBN-10: 1107607809
• Artikelnr.: 36026777

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.