Hydrometeorological Hazards: Interfacing Science and Policy

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Recent hydrometeorological extreme events have highlighted the increased exposure and vulnerability of societies and the need to strengthen the knowledge-base of related policies. Current research is focused on improving forecasting, prediction and early warning capabilities in order to improve the assessment of vulnerability and risks linked to extreme climatic events. Hydrometeorological Hazards: Interfacing science and policy is the first volume of a series which will gather scientific and p…

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Full title :Hydrometeorological Hazards : Interfacing Science and Policy / edited by Philippe Quevauviller.

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Publication Date:©2015

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Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
Place of Publication:Hoboken
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

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2.1.4 Evidence-based disaster risk policies.

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Description:1 online resource : : illustrations

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ISBN:9781118629550, 1118629558, 1118629574, 9781118629574
oclc:ocn894170541
LC Classification:GB2805
Dewey Decimal:551.57

Cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; The Series Editor -- Philippe Quevauviller; List of Contributors; Part 1 Setting the Scene; Chapter 1.1Strengthened Resilience from Historic Experience. European Societies Confronted with Hydrometeors in the Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries; 1.1.1 Introduction; 1.1.2 Five centuries of droughts; 1.1.2.1 Historic material and methods of evaluation; 1.1.2.2 A comparative approach to historic European droughts; 1.1.3 The European coast confronted with surges: A first ever?; 1.1.3.1 The French coasts; 1.1.3.2 European comparison.

1.1.3.3 Memory of the big floods in Northern Europe1.1.4 A memory of risk or a culture of survival?; 1.1.4.1 Living with droughts in the Cyclades: The Syros island; 1.1.4.2 The Atlantic flood of 1937 as a revelation of coastal weaknesses; 1.1.4.3 The lessons of history regarding impact strength; 1.1.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 1.2 Current Understanding of Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Events; 1.2.1 Introduction; 1.2.2 Global water balance, past and future; 1.2.2.1 Humidity and evaporation; 1.2.2.2 Precipitation; 1.2.2.3 River run-off.

1.2.3 Global extremes -- Rainfall, floods and dro…