LEADER 05495nam 22007695 450 001 9910298168303321 005 20200920023616.0 010 $a3-319-08933-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-08933-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000244733 035 $a(EBL)1965468 035 $a(OCoLC)893684534 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001353705 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11779885 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001353705 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11321906 035 $a(PQKB)10970126 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1965468 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-08933-1 035 $a(PPN)181348209 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000244733 100 $a20140917d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNatural Disasters and Climate Change$b[electronic resource] $eAn Economic Perspective /$fby Stéphane Hallegatte 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-08932-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $a1 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. 330 $aThis 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 horizons for decision-making. Among the conclusions is the assertion that risk management policies must recognize the benefits of risk-taking and avoid suppressing it entirely. The main message is that a combination of disaster-risk-reduction, resilience-building and adaptation policies can yield large potential gains and synergies. 606 $aEnvironmental economics 606 $aNatural disasters 606 $aEarth sciences 606 $aClimate change 606 $aOperations research 606 $aDecision making 606 $aEnvironmental Economics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W48000 606 $aNatural Hazards$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G32000 606 $aEarth Sciences, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G00002 606 $aClimate Change$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U12007 606 $aOperations Research/Decision Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/521000 615 0$aEnvironmental economics. 615 0$aNatural disasters. 615 0$aEarth sciences. 615 0$aClimate change. 615 0$aOperations research. 615 0$aDecision making. 615 14$aEnvironmental Economics. 615 24$aNatural Hazards. 615 24$aEarth Sciences, general. 615 24$aClimate Change. 615 24$aOperations Research/Decision Theory. 676 $a330 676 $a333.7 676 $a550 676 $a551 700 $aHallegatte$b Stéphane$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0889274 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910298168303321 996 $aNatural Disasters and Climate Change$92504683 997 $aUNINA