Case studies

Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Volumn 9781107025066, Issue , 2012, Pages 487-542

  Murray, Virginia ^a   Mc Bean, Gordon ^a   Bhatt, Mihir ^a   Borsch, Sergey ^a   Cheong, Tae Sung ^a   Erian, Wadid Fawzy ^a   Llosa, Silvia ^a   Nadim, Farrokh ^a   Nunez, Mario ^a   Oyun, Ravsal ^a   Suarez, Avelino G ^a   Hay, John ^a   Nhuan, Mai Trong ^a   Moreno, Jose ^a   Berry, Peter ^a   Caldin, Harriet ^a   Campbell Lendrum, Diarmid ^a   Carmichael, Catriona ^a   Cooper, Anita ^a   Diop, Cherif ^a   Ginnetti, Justin ^a   Grynzspan, Delphine ^a   Heaviside, Clare ^a   Hess, Jeremy ^a   Kossin, James ^a   Kovacs, Paul ^a   Kovats, Sari ^a   Kreis, Irene ^a   Lahidji, Reza ^a   Linnerooth Bayer, Joanne ^a   Lucio, Felipe ^a   Mason, Simon ^a   Mc Cormick, Sabrina ^a   Mechler, Reinhard ^a   Menne, Bettina ^a   Myeong, Soojeong ^a   Ngari, Arona ^a   Nicholls, Neville ^a   Spring, Ursula Oswald ^a   Peduzzi, Pascal ^a   Perez, Rosa ^a   Rodgers, Caroline ^a   Rowlatt, Hannah ^a   Saikat, Sohel ^a   Seneviratne, Sonia ^a   Taye, Addis ^a   Thornton, Richard ^a   Vardoulakis, Sotiris ^a   Warner, Koko ^a   Zodrow, Irina ^a   more..

^a NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; DISASTER RISK REDUCTIONS; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; PREVENTION MEASURES; RESPONSE STRATEGIES; SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATE; VULNERABLE REGIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84928051547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139177245.012     Document Type: Chapter

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