TY - BOOK ID - 32075497 TI - Climate Change, Extreme Events and Disaster Risk Reduction : Towards Sustainable Development Goals AU - Mal, Suraj. AU - Singh, R.B. AU - Huggel, Christian. PY - 2018 SN - 3319564692 3319564684 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Environment. KW - Environmental health. KW - Climate change. KW - Peace. KW - Sustainable development. KW - Urban economics. KW - Economic development. KW - Sustainable Development. KW - Climate Change Management and Policy. KW - Water and Health. KW - Development Studies. KW - Urban Economics. KW - Peace Studies. KW - Climatic changes. KW - Emergency management. KW - Development, Sustainable KW - Ecologically sustainable development KW - Economic development, Sustainable KW - Economic sustainability KW - ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) KW - Smart growth KW - Sustainable development KW - Sustainable economic development KW - Economic development KW - Environmental aspects KW - Consequence management (Emergency management) KW - Disaster planning KW - Disaster preparedness KW - Disaster prevention KW - Disaster relief KW - Disasters KW - Emergencies KW - Emergency planning KW - Emergency preparedness KW - Management KW - Public safety KW - First responders KW - Changes, Climatic KW - Climate change KW - Climate changes KW - Climate variations KW - Climatic change KW - Climatic changes KW - Climatic fluctuations KW - Climatic variations KW - Global climate changes KW - Global climatic changes KW - Climatology KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Teleconnections (Climatology) KW - Planning KW - Preparedness KW - Prevention KW - Changes in climate KW - Climate change science KW - Hazard mitigation. KW - Coexistence, Peaceful KW - Peaceful coexistence KW - International relations KW - Disarmament KW - Peace-building KW - Security, International KW - War KW - Cities and towns KW - City economics KW - Economics of cities KW - Economics KW - Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Economic policy KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - Disaster mitigation KW - Disaster risk mitigation KW - Disaster risk reduction KW - Hazards mitigation KW - Mitigation, Hazard KW - Natural hazard mitigation KW - Natural hazards mitigation KW - Reduction of risks of disasters KW - Risk mitigation, Disaster KW - Risk reduction, Disaster KW - Emergency management KW - Economic aspects KW - Risk mitigation KW - Environmental quality KW - Health KW - Health ecology KW - Public health KW - Environmental engineering KW - Health risk assessment KW - Health aspects KW - Global environmental change UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32075497 AB - This book discusses the science, causes, impacts and risk reduction strategies for climate change and disasters. It focuses on the use of traditional knowledge, new innovation and education to build a culture of safety and resilience at all levels in order to promote sustainable development goals in general and disaster risk reduction in particular. The global climate has changed substantially over the last century. There is strong evidence of global climate change in the form of increase in air and sea surface temperature, recession of glaciers, changes and shifting of climate regimes, increasing number of extreme events and sea levels changes. The increasing frequency of climate change induced disasters in particular is posing a threat to resilience, lives and livelihoods at global, regional and local levels. Major ecosystems of the world have experienced several climate induced disaster events in recent past. This book provides new insights into the occurrence and impacts of climatic extremes and strategies for disaster risk reduction. It includes studies on rainfall and temperature trends, floods and drought disasters, weather and climatic related disasters in mountains, changes in plant activities, risk assessment and responses in different ecosystems of the world. The book is particularly useful for environmental and disaster managers, researchers and graduate students, as well as policy makers. ER -