Climate, Change and Risk
Climate, Change and Risk presents an overview of 'extreme' weather related events and our ability to cope with them. It focuses on society's responses, insurance matters and methodologies for the analysis of climatic hazards. Drawing on worldwide research from the leading names in the field this volume explores the changes in weather hazards that might be expected as the global climate changes.
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Climate, Change and Risk presents an overview of 'extreme' weather related events and our ability to cope with them. It focuses on society's responses, insurance matters and methodologies for the analysis of climatic hazards. Drawing on worldwide research from the leading names in the field this volume explores the changes in weather hazards that might be expected as the global climate changes.
List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsForewordPrefaceList of abbreviations1Introduction12Climate change, climatic hazards and policy responses in Australia193Assessing the potential effects of climate change on clay shrinkage-induced land subsidence604Agricultural drought in Europe: Site, regional and national effects of climate change795Flooding in a warmer world: The view from Europe1256A concise history of riverine floods and flood management in the Dutch Rhine delta1627Hurricane impacts in the context of climate variability, climatic change and coastal management policy on the eastern US seaboard1738On assessing the economic impacts of sea-level rise on developed coasts2059Tropical cyclones in the Southwest Pacific: Impacts on Pacific island countries with particular reference to Fiji22110Impacts of windstorms in the Netherlands: Present risk and prospects for climate change24511Heatwaves in a changing climate27912Economic analysis of natural disasters30813An analytical review of weather insurance32814Identifying barriers and opportunities for policy responses to changing climatic risks365Author index391Subject index399
