Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19926554
AutoresJean P Palutikof
EditoresSarah Boulter (0000-0003-4325-2286), Jean Palutikof (0000-0002-5248-6925), David John Karoly, Daniela Guitart
Ano2013
Data de publicação2013-10-14
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoNatural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511845710
OpenAlexW613442562
Open LibraryOL34561011M
ISBN9780511845710
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas7

This volume presents eighteen case studies of natural disasters from Australia, Europe, North America and developing countries. By comparing the impacts, it seeks to identify what moves people to adapt, which adaptive activities succeed and which fail, and the underlying reasons, and the factors that determine when adaptation is required and when simply bearing the impact may be the more appropriate response. Much has been written about the theory of adaptation, and high-level, especially international, policy responses to climate change. This book aims to inform actual adaptation practice - what works, what does not, and why. It explores some of the lessons we can learn from past disasters and the adaptation that takes place after the event in preparation for the next. This volume will be especially useful for researchers and decision makers in policy and government concerned with climate change adaptation, emergency management, disaster risk reduction, environmental policy and planning

Adaptation (eye) · Climate change · Climate change adaptation · Disaster risk reduction · Emergency management · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Natural disaster · Political science · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Ecology · Environmental Science · Psychology · Climatic changes · Disaster relief · Human beings · Natural Disasters · Storms