The impact of climate change on natural disasters

Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems for Climate Change

Volumn 9789401785983, Issue , 2014, Pages 21-49

  Banholzer, Sandra ^a   Kossin, James ^b,c   Donner, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change impact; Disaster risk distribution; Disasters; Event attribution; Natural hazards; Tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HAZARDS; HURRICANES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND;

CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DISASTER RISK DISTRIBUTION; EVENT ATTRIBUTION; EXTREME EVENTS; NATURAL DISASTERS; NATURAL HAZARD; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RISK DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84931425938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8598-3_2     Document Type: Chapter

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