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Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Singh, Ashbindu (Editor), Zommers, Zinta (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
Subjects:
Mechanical Power Engineering
Electric Power Production
Environment
Environmental Sciences
Electrical Power Engineering
Energy Policy
Energy Policy, Economics And Management
Energy And State
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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.     

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