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Over the past century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but climate change could challenge poverty reduction efforts. On the Poverty and Welfare Impacts of Climate Change: Quantifying the Effects, Identifying the Adaptation Strategies surveys the relevant research on how climate change may affect global poverty rates and presents country-specific studies with implications for low-income rural populations as well as governments' risk management programs.An evidence review examines three main strands of the literature. Unsurprisingly, the impa
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Developing countries. --- Income distribution -- Developing countries. --- Poverty -- Developing countries. --- Poverty. --- Poverty --- Income distribution --- Climatic changes --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Social aspects --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Environmental aspects --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Global environmental change
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This book documents seven examples of Early Warning Systems for hydrometeorological and other hazards that have proven effective in reducing losses due to these hazards. The cases studied encompass a variety of climatic regimes and stages of economic development, raging across the industrialized countries of Germany, France, Japan and the United States, to Bangladesh, the island nation of Cuba and the mega-city of Shanghai. Demonstrated characteristics of these exemplary cases are synthesized into ten guiding principles for successful early warning systems that will, it is hoped, prove useful to countries seeking to develop or strengthen such systems within their own borders.
Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on -- Developing countries. --- Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Developing countries. --- Urban health -- Developing countries. --- Urban poor -- Developing countries. --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Meteorology & Climatology --- Physical Geography --- Natural disaster warning systems. --- Emergency management. --- Consequence management (Emergency management) --- Disaster planning --- Disaster preparedness --- Disaster prevention --- Disaster relief --- Disasters --- Emergencies --- Emergency planning --- Emergency preparedness --- Disaster warning systems, Natural --- Warning systems, Natural disaster --- Management --- Planning --- Preparedness --- Prevention --- Earth sciences. --- Meteorology. --- Natural disasters. --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Earth Sciences. --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Natural Hazards. --- Public safety --- First responders --- Emergency communication systems --- Geology. --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Aerology --- Atmospheric science --- Natural calamities --- Atmospheric sciences --- Atmosphere
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Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level rise, flooding, and other hazards. Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowded living conditions, lack of adequate infrastructure and services, unsafe housing, inadequate nutrition, and poor health. These conditions can turn a natural hazard or change in climate into a disaster, and resu
City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries. --- Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on -- Developing countries. --- Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Developing countries. --- Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Developing countries. --- Urban health -- Developing countries. --- Urban policy -- Developing countries. --- Urban poor -- Developing countries. --- Urban poor --- Climatic changes --- City planning --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urban health --- Urban policy --- Organization and Administration --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Population --- Climatic Processes --- Financial Management --- International Cooperation --- Social Problems --- Disasters --- Internationality --- Environment --- Sociology --- Population Characteristics --- Ecological and Environmental Processes --- Health Services Administration --- Economics --- Social Sciences --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Ecological and Environmental Phenomena --- Biological Phenomena --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Climate Change --- Risk Management --- Developing Countries --- Disaster Planning --- Poverty --- Urban Population --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Social aspects --- Effect of human beings on --- Environmental aspects --- City health --- Urban public health --- Urbanization --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Health aspects --- Planning --- Government policy --- Management --- Public health --- Land use --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban renewal --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Global environmental change
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