Global Warming, Natural Hazards, and Emergency Management

ISBN-13: 9781138432741 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

George Haddow

Opis

Documents the imperative need for communities to prepare for the coming effects of climate change and provides a series of recommendations on how to reduce risks for communities and businesses. This book offers case histories from communities across America that have successfully reduced the extent and consequences of natural disasters.

Recenzje

The book’s case study of flooding in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is particularly instructive of the tenacity and long-term political involvement needed to deal thoroughly with even the most obvious and universally acknowledged hazard . . . offers a wide variety of additional resources on climate change and hazards . . .
– In Natural Hazards Observer, March 2009

Spis treści

The Case for Adaptation (Risk Reduction). Planning and Protecting the Environment. Federal Mitigation Programs: Collateral Stimulus to Reducing the Impacts of Climate Change in our Communities. Community-Based Hazard-Mitigation Case Studies. County/Regional-Based Hazard-Mitigation Case Studies. Conclusions and Recommendations. Appendix: Compilation of Reports, Web Sites, and Other Materials Related to Climate Change.

O autorze

George Haddow, Jane A. Bullock, Kim Haddow