Seeking higher ground? how rising global temperatures will lead to unprecedented waves of human migration.
"Some scientists predict the sea will rise one and a half meters before 2100, but rapidly melting polar ice caps could make the real amount much higher. In the coming century, intensifying storms will batter our coasts, and droughts and heat events will be annual threats. All th…
A major contribution to the analysis of vulnerability, resilience, and the challenge of confronting environmental problems such as global climate change, 'Leadership in Disaster' is also a resource for scholars and general readers seeking to learn more about how extreme weather …
A major contribution to the analysis of vulnerability, resilience, and the challenge of confronting environmental problems such as global climate change, 'Leadership in Disaster' is also a resource for scholars and general readers seeking to learn more about how extreme weather …
A major contribution to the analysis of vulnerability, resilience, and the challenge of confronting environmental problems such as global climate change, 'Leadership in Disaster' is also a resource for scholars and general readers seeking to learn more about how extreme weather …
"From roads to clean water systems, the built infrastructure sustaining urban populations is increasingly vulnerable to climate. Understanding the dilemma and identifying a path forward is particularly important as cities are significant agents of climate action. A follow-up to …
Introduction -- Framing -- Methods of event attribution -- Attribution of particular types of extreme events -- Conslusions -- Appendix A: Statement of task -- Appendix B: Workshop agenda -- Appendix C: Committee mini biographies. "As climate has warmed over recent years, a new…
"As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded across the globe. Climate models simulate such changes in extreme events, and some of the reasons for the changes are well understood. Warming increases the like…