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  title info:
    title: Adapting to Climate Change
    sub title: Lessons from Natural Hazards Planning
  name:
    name part: Glavovic, Bruce C.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Smith, Gavin P.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 461 p. 61 illus., 55 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book identifies lessons learned from natural hazard experiences to help communities plan for and adapt to climate change. Written by leading experts, the case studies examine diverse experiences, from severe storms to sea-level related hazards, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods, earthquakes and tsunami, in North America, Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa and Small Island Developing States. The lessons are grouped according to four imperatives: (i) Develop collaborative governance networks; (ii) build adaptive capabilities; (iii) invest in pre-event planning; and (iv) the moral imperative to undertake adaptive actions that advance resilience and sustainability. “A theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis of the interface between disaster risk management and climate change adaptation, comprehensive yet accessible, and very timely. Mark Pelling, Department of Geography, King’s College London, UK “This book represents a major contribution to the understanding of natural hazards planning as an urgent first step for reducing disaster risk and adapting to climate change to ensure sustainable and equitable development." Sálvano Briceño, Vice-Chair, Science Committee, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk IRDR, an ICSU/ISSC/ISDR programme. Former Director International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, UNISDR "What a welcome addition to the young literature on climate adaptati on and hazard mitigation! Bruce Glavovic and Gavin Smith each bring to the editing task a rare blend of solid scholarly attainment and on-the-ground experience that shines through in this extensively-documented synthesis of theoretical ideas from the realms of climate and hazards and their validation in a rich set of diverse case studies pulled in from around the world. This book should remain a classic for many years.” William H. Hooke, American Meteorological Society.
  table of contents: Section 1: Climate change adaptation: Theory and practice -- Section 2: The nature of disasters and the role natural hazards planning in building resilient communities -- Section 3: Lessons from disaster experience.
  note: edited by Bruce C. Glavovic, Gavin P. Smith.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change Management and Policy
  classification: GB5000-5030
  classification: 551
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Environmental Hazards
  identifier: 9789401786317
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8631-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 140418
    record change date: 20151103125325.0
    record identifier: 978-94-017-8631-7