Climate Change, Extreme Events and Disaster Risk Reduction

This book seeks to limit the impact of climate induced disasters. It discusses their science, their causes, and their impacts. Readers will also learn key strategies to reduce risk. The authors focus on the use of traditional knowledge, new innovation, and education. The goal is to build a culture of safety and resilience at all levels. This will help promote sustainable development goals in general and disaster risk reduction in particular.

Coverage features studies on rainfall and temperature trends, details on floods and drought disasters, and a look at weather and climatic related disasters in mountains. It also examines changes in plant activities as well as risk assessment and responses throughout the world.

The global climate has changed substantially over the last century. The increasing frequency of climate change induced disasters in particular poses a threat. Lives and livelihoods at the global, the regional, and the local levels are at stake. This volume offers readers insight into how to prevent or mitigate these crises. Environmental and disaster managers, researchers, and policy makers will find it an essential resource.