Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1 2

... ofclimate change, the increasing intensity and fre-quency of natural disasters and extreme weatherevents (Srinivas and Nakagawa, 2008; Smithet al., 2009). The rate of increase of disasters aswell ... population and ahazard event. Consequently, climate changewill have a twofold effect on disaster risk: (1)through the increase in weather and climatehazards, and (2) through an inc...

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... ClimatechangeasenvironmentalandeconomichazardGuestEditor: Boris PorfirievClimate change as environmentaland economic hazardGuest Editor Boris Porfiriev Russian Academy of SciencesClimate change ... change as environmentaland economic hazard The current policy for climate change prioritizes mitigation over adaptation. The collected papers of Climate Change as Environm...

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... ExtremeEvents and Disasters. IISD Reporting Services. http:/ /climate- l.org/2009/04/29/ipcc-to-prepare-special-report-on-extreme-events -and- disasters/.IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) ,2001. ... construction.Science and Public Policy, 30(4). 235.Helmer, M. and Hilhorst, D. J. M., 2006. Natural disas-ters and climate change. Disasters, 30(1). 1–4.Hogarth, R. M....

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... increasing activityin the basin the increase has occurred in the east-ernmost part of the basin, far from land. Theactivity in areas where landfall takes placeshows very similar trends to the landfall ... 18 9ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS in scientific understanding as well as some indi-cations of skilful in-sample explanatory power(i.e. retrodictions or hindcasts), no methodologyhas yet shown sk...

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... third-quarter catastrophe claims, says ISO’sProperty Claim Services Unit. www.iso.com/Press-Releases/2008/Insurers-to-Pay-$11.5-Billion-in-Third-Quarter-Catastrophe-Claims-Says-ISOs-Property-Claim-Service.html.Jagger, ... an increased concern among scientistsabout the speed and severity of climate change. The faster-than-expected pace of observedclimate change, a better understanding of...

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... 2007).2.2. Climate change and the frequency andseverity of natural disastersIn addition to socio -economic developments ,climate change may increase the intensity andseverity of weather extremes and contribute ... and Section 5 examines the rolefinancial arrangements can play in natural disas-ter risk management.2. Future natural disaster risk under climateand socio -economic c...

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... protection measures, such asdikes or building codes.Over time, catastrophe models need to beupdated due to socio -economic developmentsand climate change. In case climate changeincreases the frequency ... uncertainty andambiguity is associated with both the frequencyof a disaster occurring and the damage that itwill cause. Constructing different scenarios ofclimate and socio -econom...

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... Regional pro-jections of climate and socio -economic changeand modelling of future changes in natural disas-ter risks are needed to steer adaptation and riskmanagement strategies. An understanding ... 2004a. Defining and measuring economic resi-lience to disasters.Disaster Prevention and Manage-ment,13(4).307–314.Rose, A., 2004b. Economic principles, issues, andresearch prioriti...

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... not be read as if the groups ofscientists were denying climate change. On thecontrary, climate change was in general men-tioned as one of the underlying causes, besides ageneral over-allocation ... theamount of water that can be taken from theBasin on a sustainable basis; to identify risks toBasin water resources such as climate change aswell as strategies to manage these r...

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... management andclimate change was justified by the fact that MinisterPenny Wong was the minister for climate changeand water.5. The Coorong Wetlands are one of the most impor-tant wetlands in Australia. ... contrast to climate change, drought policies have not been a politically sensi-tive issue in Australia, and have not been ques-tioned in the media debate. Rather, the ‘bush and the...

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