New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword — Preface — Summary for policymakers — Climate change : new dimensions in disaster risk, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience — Determinants of risk : exposure and vulnerability — Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment — Changes in impacts of climate extremes : human systems and ecosystems — Managing the risks from climate extremes at the local level — National systems for managing the risks from climate extremes and disasters — Managing the risks : international level and integration across scales — Toward a sustainable and resilient future — Case studies.
- 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.
Subjects:
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes — Risk management.
- Emergency management.
- Natural disasters — Planning.
- Climate change mitigation.
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