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Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change / / edited by Ashbindu Singh, Zinta Zommers
| Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change / / edited by Ashbindu Singh, Zinta Zommers |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (394 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.3472 |
| Soggetto topico |
Climate change
Energy policy Energy and state Energy systems Climate Change Energy Policy, Economics and Management Energy Systems |
| ISBN | 94-017-8598-8 |
| Classificazione |
RB 10121
ZG 9290 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299620703321 |
| Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Resilience : the science of adaptation to climate change / / edited by Zinta Zommers and Keith Alverson
| Resilience : the science of adaptation to climate change / / edited by Zinta Zommers and Keith Alverson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Elsevier, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (378 pages) |
| Disciplina | 363.738746 |
| Soggetto topico |
Climate change mitigation
Climatic changes Klimatilpasning Klimaendringer |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Adaptations. |
| ISBN |
0-12-811892-X
0-12-811891-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Section I. Adaptation needs: Extreme events : trends and risk assessment methodologies -- Adapting to sea-level rise -- Climate change, climate extremes, and global food production : adaptation in the agricultural sector -- Tracking adaptation progress at the global level : key issues and priorities -- Evolution of climate change adaptation policy and negotiation -- Section II. Adaptation actions : hazards, ecosystems, sectors: Flood risk management in the United Kingdom : putting climate change adaptation into practice in the Thames Estuary -- The science of adaptation to extreme heat -- Measuring drought resilience through community capitals -- Community-based adaptation : Alaska Native communities design a relocation process to protect their human rights -- California : it's complicated : drought, drinking water, and drylands -- Advancing coastal climate resilience : inclusive data and decision-making for small island communities -- Building urban resilience to address urbanization and climate change -- Climate-smart agriculture in Southeast Asia : lessons from community-based adaptation programs in the Philippines and Timor-Leste -- Challenges in building climate-resilient quality energy infrastructure in Africa -- Section III. Tools and approaches: Ethics, communities, and climate resilience : an examination by case studies -- A framework for assessing the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation -- The Global Framework for Climate Services Adaptation Programme in Africa -- Supporting farmers facing drought : lessons from a climate service in Jamaica -- Forecast-based financing and climate change adaptation : Uganda makes history using science to prepare for floods -- Managing risks from climate change on the African continent : The African Risk Capacity (ARC) as an innovative risk financing mechanism -- Climate change adaptation in Ethiopia : developing a method to assess program options -- Social capital as a determinant of resilience : implications for adaptation policy -- Section IV. Emerging issues: Climate-resilient development in fragile contexts -- Ecological, agricultural, and health impacts of solar geoengineering -- The progression of climate change, human rights, and human mobility in the context of transformative resilience : a perspective over the Pacific -- Integrated loss and damage : climate change adaptation : disaster risk reduction framework : the case of the Philippines -- Section V. Next steps: Intelligent tinkering in climate change adaptation. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910583066003321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Elsevier, , [2018] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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