Climate and Natural Hazard Risks

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-27368-1
Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Climate and Natural Hazard Risks is an in-depth examination of the physical, environmental, economic, and social impacts of climate change and natural hazards on vulnerable populations in different regions around the world. The authors open with the simple question “What is risk?,” taking a detailed look at historical and global trends and risk frameworks as they relate to the Earth system and climate change. The authors then examine the drivers of social and physical vulnerability. From there, the chapters systematically review different hazards and their implications for risk (hurricanes, cyclones, flooding, extreme temperatures, food insecurity, earthquakes, tsunamis). The authors then delve into the latest methods and research for multihazard risk assessment. The book closes with challenging explorations of resilience, and environmental and social transitions for climate change. Students, practitioners and policy-makers working across climate science, hazard risk assessment, disaster management and humanitarian response will find this instructive and thought-provoking text essential reading.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guppy, Lisa

Sammonds, Peter

Sun, Ting

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What is Risk?
2. Global Trends
3. Risk Frameworks and Mechanisms
4. Dynamic Earth
5. Earth’s Climate
6. Climate Change: Threat Multiplier
7. Hurricanes and Cyclones
8. Flooding
9. Heat and Cold Waves
10. Drought and Food Security
11. Geological Hazards
12. Probabilistic Hazard Assessment
13. Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment
14. Resilience
15. Transitions

Über Autor(innen)

Guppy, Lisa
Lisa Guppy is Associate Professor in Risk and Humanitarianism in the UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction. She has worked across humanitarian and development fields, primarily with United Nations organisations, in Asia, Africa, the Americas and the Middle East. Her roles have spanned local to global level and experience in humanitarian responses, from the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka to drought in the Horn of Africa, as well as the ongoing complex emergency in Afghanistan.

Sammonds, Peter
Peter Sammonds is Professor of Geophysics and Climate Risks. He was founding Director and Head of Department of the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (now department) and established its BSc Global Humanitarian Studies and MSc Risk and Disaster Science programmes. His research has covered earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, landslides, floods and ice hazard risks. He now works at the interface of physical and social sciences on disasters in conflict zones, early warning for refugees and land use change.