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By Christopher B. Field, Vicente Barros, Thomas F. Stocker, Qin Dahe

ISBN-10: 1107025060

ISBN-13: 9781107025066

This Intergovernmental Panel on weather swap targeted document (IPCC-SREX) explores the problem of realizing and coping with the dangers of weather extremes to enhance weather switch variation. severe climate and weather occasions, interacting with uncovered and susceptible human and average platforms, can result in mess ups. alterations within the frequency and severity of the actual occasions impact catastrophe chance, yet so do the spatially assorted and temporally dynamic styles of publicity and vulnerability. a few varieties of severe climate and weather occasions have elevated in frequency or significance, yet populations and resources in danger have additionally elevated, with results for catastrophe possibility. possibilities for handling dangers of climate- and climate-related mess ups exist or should be built at any scale, neighborhood to foreign. ready following strict IPCC tactics, SREX is a useful review for an individual attracted to weather extremes, environmental failures, and edition to weather switch, together with policymakers, the non-public area, and educational researchers.

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The chapter assesses these questions from both a regional and a sectoral perspective, and examines the direct and indirect economic costs of such changes and their relation to development. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 assess approaches to disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change from the perspectives of local, national, and international governance institutions, taking into consideration the roles of government, individuals, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and other civil society institutions and arrangements.

Elsewhere there is overall low confidence because of inconsistent projections. 3] Observed: Medium confidence that some regions of the world have experienced more intense and longer droughts, but in some regions droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter. 4] Projected: Likely that the global frequency of tropical cyclones will either decrease or remain essentially unchanged. Likely increase in average tropical cyclone maximum wind speed, although increases may not occur in all ocean basins.

2] Community participation in planning, the determined use of local and community knowledge and capacities, and the decentralization of decisionmaking, supported by and in synergy with national and international policies and actions, are critical for disaster risk reduction (high confidence). The use of local level risk and context analysis methodologies, inspired by disaster risk management and now strongly accepted by many civil society and government agencies in work on adaptation at the local levels, would foster greater integration between, and greater effectiveness of, both adaptation to climate change and disaster risk management.

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