Reducing disaster
Subtitle: early warning systems for climate change
By: Ashbindu Singh, Zinta Zommers, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9789401785976; 9789401785983
Subjects: Hazard mitigation; Klimaänderung; Forecasting; Climatic changes; Katastrophenschutz; Naturkatastrophe; Climatic changes / Environmental aspects / Forecasting; Natural disaster warning systems; Klimakatastrophe; Frühwarnsystem; Weather forecasting
Description: 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 people from hazards using early warning systems, and includes contributions from experts from four different continents representing 14 different universities, 8 government agencies and two UN agencies. Chapters detail critical components of early warning systems, ways to identify vulnerable communities, predict hazards and deliver information. Unique satellite images illustrate the transnational impact of disasters, while case studies provide detailed examples of warning systems. With contributors from the fields of economics, ethics, meteorology, geography and biology, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in disaster risk reduction or climate change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Zinta Zommers and Ashbindu Singh; title: The impact of climate change on natural disasters  -- Sandra Banholzer, James Kossin, and Simon Donner; title: Challenges in early warning of the persistent and widespread winter fog over the Indo-Gangetic plains: a satellite perspective  -- Ritesh Gautam; title: Assessing human vulnerability to climate change from an evolutionary perspective  -- J. Ryan Hogarth, Donovan Campbell, and Johanna Wandel; title: Early warning systems defined  -- Ilan Kelman and Michael H. Glantz; title: The state of early warning systems  -- Veronica Francesca Grasso; title: Climate change and early warning systems for wildland fire  -- William J. de Groot and Michael D. Flannigan; title: Climate change implications and use of early warning systems for global dust storms  -- Lindsey M. Harriman; title: Applications of medium range probabilistic flood forecast for societal benefits: lessons learnt from Bangladesh  -- S. H. M. Fakhruddin; title: Flood forecasting and early warning: an example from the UK environment agency  -- Janak Pathak and Richard Eastaff; title: The evolution of Kenya's drought management system  -- James Oduor, Jeremy Swift, and Izzy Birch; title: Understanding the warning process through the lens of practice: emancipation as a condition of action. Some lessons from France  -- Laurence Créton-Cazanave; title: The effect of early flood warnings on mitigation and recovery during the 2010 Pakistan floods  -- Ginger Turner, Farah Said, Uzma Afzal, and Karen Campbell; title: Disasters are gendered: what's new?  -- Joni Seager; title: The ethics of early warning systems for climate change  -- Kerry Bowman, Jeffrey Rice, and Alan Warner; title: Decadal warning systems  -- Doug Smith; title: The role of scientific modelling and insurance in providing innovative solutions for managing the risk of natural disasters  -- Patrick McSharry; title: "Follow the spiders": ecosystems as early warnings  -- Zinta Zommers; title: Natural hazards and climate change in Kenya: minimizing the impacts on vulnerable communities through early warning systems  -- Nilmi Senaratna, Marie-Ange Baudoin, Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo, Linda Ajuang, Daniel W. Wepukhulu, and Ayub S. Mwadali; title: Epilogue: the credible sentinel.