Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Singh, Ashbindu (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Zommers, Zinta (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Electric power production.; Climate change.; Climate Change.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Energy Technology.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.     .