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  title info:
    title: Natural Disasters and Climate Change
    sub title: An Economic Perspective
  name:
    name part: Hallegatte, Stéphane.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 194 p. 43 illus., 32 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores economic concepts related to disaster losses, describes mechanisms that determine the economic consequences of a disaster, and reviews methodologies for making decisions regarding risk management and adaptation. The author addresses the need for better understanding of the consequences of disasters and reviews and analyzes three scientific debates on linkage between disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change. The first involves the existence and magnitude of long-term economic impact of natural disasters on development. The second is the disagreement over whether any development is the proper solution to high vulnerability to disaster risk. The third debate involves the difficulty of drawing connections between natural disasters and climate change and the challenge in managing them through an integrated strategy. The introduction describes economic views of disaster, including direct and indirect costs, output and welfare losses, and use of econometric tools to measure losses. The next section defines disaster risk, delineates between “good” and “bad” risk-taking, and discusses a pathway to balanced growth. A section entitled “Trends in Hazards and the Role of Climate Change” sets scenarios for climate change analysis, discusses statistical and physical models for downscaling global climate scenarios to extreme event scenarios, and considers how to consider extremes of hot and cold, storms, wind, drought and flood. Another sect ion analyzes case studies on hurricanes and the US coastline; sea-level rises and storm surge in Copenhagen; and heavy precipitation in Mumbai. A section on Methodologies for disaster risk management includes a study on cost-benefit analysis of coastal protections in New Orleans, and one on early-warning systems in developing countries. The next section outlines decision-making in disaster risk management, including robust decision-making, No-regret and No-risk strategies; and strategies that reduce time hori…
  table of contents: 1 Introduction and summary -- 2 What is a disaster? An economic point of view -- 3 Disaster risks: evidence and theory -- 4 Trends in Hazards and the Role of Climate Change -- 5 Climate change impact on natural disaster losses -- 6 Methodologies for disaster risk management in a changing environment -- 7 Decision making for disaster risk management in a changing climate -- 8 References.
  note: by Stéphane Hallegatte.
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  classification: HC79.E5
  classification: 333.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319089331
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08933-1
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    record creation date: 140917
    record change date: 20151204182956.0
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