Extreme Events and Climate Change A Multidisciplinary Approach

An authoritative volume focusing on multidisciplinary methods to estimate the impacts of climate-related extreme events to society

As the intensity and frequency of extreme events related to climate change continue to increase, there is an urgent need for clear and cohesive analysis that integrates both climatological and socioeconomic impacts. Extreme Events and Climate Change provides a timely, multidisciplinary examination of the impacts of extreme weather under a warming climate. Offering wide-ranging coverage of the methods and analysis that relate changes in extreme events to their societal impacts, this volume helps readers understand and overcome the methodological challenges associated with extreme event analysis.

Contributions from leading experts from across disciplines describe the theoretical requirements for analyzing the complex interactions between meteorological phenomena and the resulting outcomes, discuss new approaches for analyzing the impacts of extreme events on society, and illustrate how empirical and theoretical concepts merge to form a unified plan that enables informed decision making. Throughout the text, innovative frameworks allow readers to find solutions to the modeling and statistical challenges encountered when analyzing extreme events. Designed for researchers and policy makers alike, this important resource:

• Discusses topics central to understanding how extreme weather changes as the climate warms
• Provides coverage of analysis methods that relate changes in extreme events to their societal impacts
• Reviews significant theoretical and modeling advances in the physical aspects of climate science
• Presents a comprehensive view of state of the science, including new ways of using data from different sources

Extreme Events and Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach is an indispensable volume for students, researchers, scientists, and practitioners in fields such as hazard and risk analysis, climate change, atmospheric and ocean sciences, hydrology, geography, agricultural science, and environmental and space science.

Dr. Federico Castillo, Specialist Researcher, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Dr. Michael Wehner, Senior Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.

Dr. Dáithí Stone, Climate Scientist, Global Climate Adaptation Partnership, Oxford, United Kingdom.

1.       Introduction to Extreme Events: Complex climatological phenomena and its socio economic consequences       
Wehner, Stone, Castillo

Section I: Events and Innovative Data Analysis

2.       The impact of hydrometereological extremes on human health

Juan Robalino, Tropical Agricultural Research Center and University of Costa Rica; Matias Piaggio, Eduardo Pacay, Tropical Agricultural Research Center

3.       The impact of heat waves on the health of outdoor labor    
Marc Schenker, University of California, Davis

4.       Assessing the impacts of extreme events on multiple breadbasket failures         
Anthony Janetos and John Connors, Boston University 

5.       Linking extreme events to animal and ecosystem health.             
Woutrina Smith, University of California, Davis and David Lopez-Carr, University of California, Santa Barbara

6.       Flood occurrence and  water resources management    
Jeff Arnold, United States Army Corps of Engineers        

7.       Heat waves and their impact on outdoor agricultural labor productivity 
Michael Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Federico Castillo University of California, Berkeley

8.       Extreme events and the future of Infectious diseases   
Haile Debas University of California, San Francisco           

Section II: Case Studies-Socio Economic Impact of Extreme Events

9.       Agriculture, Climate Change and Adaptation to Extremes: The role of biotechnology      
Justus Wesseler, Wageningen University, Netherlands; and David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley 

10.   Extreme events and their Impact on the Financial Stability of the Insurance Sector          
Colin Shaw, 427Climate Solutions and University of California, Berkeley

11.   Farm households’ vulnerability to extreme events: case study in Central America            
Milagro Saborío, Francisco Alpízar, Tropical Agricultural Research Center; Celia Harvey, Ruth Martinez, Conservation International, Raffaele Vignola, Barbara Viguera, Tropical Agricultural Research Center  

12.   Extreme events and the impact on peak energy consumption   
Max Auffhammer. University of California, Berkeley      

13.   Agent based modeling simulation of land use change in the presence of extreme events in Mexico City
Armando Sánchez, Carlos Gay, Ana Herrera-Merino and Débora Martínez-Ventura, National Autonomous University, Mexico City

14.   Socio-economic considerations to the impacts of displacement due to Climate Change. Lori M. Hunter. University of Colorado, Boulder.

15.   Wildfires and their socio economic impact in the Western U.S.  
Keith Gilless, University of California, Berkeley

16.   Extreme events and the impact on forced migration patterns. Etienne Piguet.  University of Neuchatel, Switzerland       

17.   Synthesizing impacts of extreme weather events across systems            
D. Stone              

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