Climate, Change and Risk

by Downing,Thomas; Downing,Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780415170314
• ISBN10: 0415170311
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

With weather-related losses on the rise, this timely volume explores the poorly-understood fields of hazard vulnerability and disaster management. Including issues of societal responses to climate change, as well as insurance matters and current research methodologies, Thomas Downing presents an overview of the future of climatic disasters, and our ability to cope with them.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii	(4)
List of tables	xi	(3)
List of contributors	xiv	(3)
Foreword	xvii	(2)
Preface	xix	(2)
List of abbreviations	xxi
1 Introduction	1	(18)
THOMAS E. DOWNING
MEGAN J. GAWITH
ALEXANDER A. OLSTHOORN
RICHARD S.J. TOL
PIER VELLINGA
2 Climate change, climatic hazards and policy responses in Australia	19	(41)
A. BARRIE PITTOCK
ROBERT J. ALLAN
KEVIN J. HENNESSY
KATHY L. MCINNES
RAMASAMY SUPPIAH
KEVIN J. WALSH
PETER H. WHETTON
HEATHER McMASTER
ROS TAPLIN
3 Assessing the potential effects of climate change on clay shrinkage-induced land subsidence	60	(19)
A. PAUL BRIGNALL
MEGAN J. GAWITH
JOHN L. ORR
PAULA A. HARRISON
4 Agricultural drought in Europe: Site, regional and national effects of climate change	79	(46)
A. PAUL BRIGNALL
THOMAS E. DOWNING
DAVID FAVIS-MORTLOCK
PAULA A. HARRISON
JOHN L. ORR
5 Flooding in a warmer world: The view from Europe	125	(37)
JOHN HANDMER
EDMUND PENNING-ROWSELL
SUE TAPSELL
6 A concise history of riverine floods and flood management in the Dutch Rhine delta	162	(11)
ANDREAS LANGEN
RICHARD S.J. TOL
7 Hurricane impacts in the context of climate variability, climatic change and coastal management policy on the eastern US seaboard	173	(32)
ROGER S. PULWARTY
8 On assessing the economic impacts of sea-level rise on developed coasts	205	(16)
J. JASON WEST
HADI DOWLATABADI
9 Tropical cyclones in the Southwest Pacific: Impacts on Pacific island countries with particular reference to Fiji	221	(24)
ALEXANDER A. OLSTHOORN
W. JOHN MAUNDER
RICHARD S.J. TOL
10 Impacts of windstorms in the Netherlands: Present risk and prospects for climate change	245	(34)
CORNELIS DORLAND
RICHARD S.J. TOL
ALEXANDER A. OLSTHOORN
JEAN P. PALUTIKOF
11 Heatwaves in a changing climate	279	(29)
MEGAN J. GAWITH
THOMAS E. DOWNING
THEODORE S. KARACOSTAS
12 Economic analysis of natural disasters	308	(20)
RICHARD S.J. TOL
FRANK P.M. LEEK
13 An analytical review of weather insurance	328	(37)
RICHARD S.J. TOL
14 Identifying barriers and opportunities for policy responses to changing climatic risks	365	(26)
MATTHIJS HISSCHEMOLLER
ALEXANDER A. OLSTHOORN
Author index	391	(8)
Subject index	399