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... in political and economic respects. Indeed, following the mainstream interpretation of climate change, assuming the human contribution to this change amounts to as much as two-thirds of the total ... 167–170 doi:10.3763/ehaz.2009.0026 # 2009 Earthscan ISSN: 1747-7891 (print), 1878-0059 (online) www.earthscanjournals.com change, in particular those associated with the current economic cris...

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... et al., 2007; Smith et al., 2009). This is illustrated by one of the manifestations of climate change, the increasing intensity and fre- quency of natural disasters and extreme weather events ... a ministerial meeting he specially convened in New York: If we are too slow to adapt to climate change, we risk making disasters even more catastrophic than they need to be. We must draw on the H...

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... scientific community about whether the upswing in hurri- cane activity is caused by anthropogenic climate change, meaning that it is likely to persist in the future, or natural climate variability related ... therefore, advisable to con- sider flexible infrastructure that allows for adjustments to climate change, especially given 216 Botzen and van den Bergh ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS the consid...

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