Climate Change and Natural Disasters
The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters - the great floods in Thailand in 2011, Super Storm Sandy in the United States in 2012, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, to name a few. In 2014, 17.5 million people were displaced by climate-related...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London and New York :
Routledge
2017.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432083406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Overview
- The anatomy of climate-related natural disasters
- The rising threat of climate-related natural disasters
- Climate change mitigation
- Climate adaptation and disaster management
- Transforming mindsets, motivations, and politics
- A new development paradigm.
