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Extreme Natural Hazards Disaster Risks and Societal Implications
Author | : Alik Ismail-Zadeh,Professor Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi,Professor Andrzej Kijko,Kuniyoshu Takeuchi,Professor Ilya Zaliapin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2014-05-10 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 1139922238 |
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A unique interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, including global hazards and case-studies, for researchers, graduate students and professionals.
Extreme Natural Hazards Disaster Risks and Societal Implications
Author | : Alik Ismail-Zadeh,Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi,Andrzej Kijko,Kuniyoshi Takeuchi,Ilya Zaliapin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 1139910493 |
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A unique interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, including global hazards and case-studies, for researchers, graduate students and professionals.
Extreme Natural Hazards Disaster Risks and Societal Implications
Author | : Alik Ismail-Zadeh,Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi,Andrzej Kijko,Kuniyoshi Takeuchi,Ilya Zaliapin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2014-04-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781107033863 |
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A unique interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, including global hazards and case-studies, for researchers, graduate students and professionals.
Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
Author | : Christopher B. Field,Vicente Barros,Thomas F. Stocker,Qin Dahe |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2012-05-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781107380103 |
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This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate change adaptation. Extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposed and vulnerable human and natural systems, can lead to disasters. Changes in the frequency and severity of the physical events affect disaster risk, but so do the spatially diverse and temporally dynamic patterns of exposure and vulnerability. Some types of extreme weather and climate events have increased in frequency or magnitude, but populations and assets at risk have also increased, with consequences for disaster risk. Opportunities for managing risks of weather- and climate-related disasters exist or can be developed at any scale, local to international. Prepared following strict IPCC procedures, SREX is an invaluable assessment for anyone interested in climate extremes, environmental disasters and adaptation to climate change, including policymakers, the private sector and academic researchers.
Hazards Risks and Disasters in Society
Author | : Andrew E. Collins,Jones Samantha,Bernard Manyena,Janaka Jayawickrama |
Publsiher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2014-11-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780123964748 |
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Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen themselves, or are strengthened, mitigate decline and resultant further exposure to what are largely human induced risks of environmental, social and economic degradation. This book outlines why it is important to explore in more depth the relationships between environmental hazards, risk and disasters in society. It presents challenges presented by mainstream and non-mainstream approaches to the human side of disaster studies. By hazard categories this book includes critical processes and outcomes that significantly disrupt human wellbeing over brief or long time-frames. Whilst hazards, risks and disasters impact society, individuals, groups, institutions and organisations offset the effects by becoming strong, healthy, resilient, caring and creative. Innovations can arise from social organisation in times of crisis. This volume includes much of use to practitioners and policy makers needing to address both prevention and response activities. Notably, as people better engage prevalent hazards and risks they exercise a process that has become known as disaster risk reduction (DRR). In a context of climatic risks this is also indicative of climate change adaptation (CCA). Ultimately it represents the quest for development of sustainable environmental and societal futures. Throughout the book cases studies are derived from the world of hazards risks and disasters in society. Includes sections on prevention of and response to hazards, risks and disasters Provides case studies of prominent societal challenges of hazards, risks and disasters Innovative approaches to dealing with disaster drawing from multiple disciplines and sectors
Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
Author | : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2012-05-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781107025066 |
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Extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposed and vulnerable human and natural systems, can lead to disasters. This Special Report explores the social as well as physical dimensions of weather- and climate-related disasters, considering opportunities for managing risks at local to international scales. SREX was approved and accepted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on 18 November 2011 in Kampala, Uganda.
A Safer Future
Author | : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,U.S. National Committee for the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 1991-02-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780309045469 |
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Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally. The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.
The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters
Author | : Debarati Guha-Sapir,Indhira Santos,Alexandre Borde |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199339808 |
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Since the turn of the millennium, more than one million people have been killed and 2.3 billion others have been directly affected by natural disasters around the world. In cases like the 2010 Haiti earthquake or the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, these disasters have time and time again wrecked large populations and national infrastructures. While recognizing that improved rescue, evacuation, and disease control are crucial to reducing the effects of natural disasters, in the final analysis, poverty remains the main risk factor determining the long-term impact of natural hazards. Furthermore, natural disasters have themselves a tremendous impact on the poorest of the poor, who are often ill-prepared to deal with natural hazards and for whom a hurricane, an earthquake, or a drought can mean a permanent submersion in poverty. The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters focuses on these concerns for poverty and vulnerability. Written by a collection of esteemed scholars in disaster management and sustainable development, the report provides an overview of the general trends in natural disasters and their effects by focusing on a critical analysis of different methodologies used to assess the economic impact of natural disasters. Economic Impacts presents six national case studies (Bangladesh, Vietnam, India, Nicaragua, Japan and the Netherlands) and shows how household surveys and country-level macroeconomic data can analyze and quantify the economic impact of disasters. The researchers within Economic Impacts have created path-breaking work and have opened new avenues for thinking and debate to push forward the frontiers of knowledge on economics of natural disasters.