Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation : Speci...
ISBN: 9781107025066 | 1107025060
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 5/31/2012
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This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate change adaptation. An invaluable assessment for anyone interested in climate extremes, environmental disasters and adaptation to climate change, including policymakers, the private sector and academic researchers.
Invaluable assessment for anyone interested in climate extremes, environmental disasters and adaptation to climate change includin... MORE
Invaluable assessment for anyone interested in climate extremes, environmental disasters and adaptation to climate change includin... MORE
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Summary for policymakers | |
| Climate change: new dimensions in disaster risk, exposure, vulnerability and resilience | |
| Determinants of risk: exposure and vulnerability | |
| Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment | |
| Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems | |
| Managing the risks from... MORE | |
| National systems for managing the risks from climate extremes and disasters | |
| Managing the risks: international level and integration across scales | |
| Toward a sustainable and resilient future | |
| Case studies | |
| Authors and expert reviewers | |
| Glossary of terms | |
| Acronyms | |
| List of major IPCC reports | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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