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Coping with climate change: principles and Asian context

  • Publisher(s): Springer
  • Publication date: 2011
  • ISBN/ISSN: 9783642196737
  • Author(s): Chandrappa, Ramesha; Gupta, Sushil; Kulshrestha, Umesh Chandra
  • Number of pages: 370 p.

This book addresses the environmental and climatic issues in Asia. It gathers experiences and academic inputs from renowned universities and collects data from Asia, which host some of the most populated countries and ecological hot spots. It includes chapters on: climate change & hydro-meteorological risks in Asia; climate and non climatic hazards; early warning systems and their effectiveness in Asia; disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in Asia; regional climate change prediction; hazard and risk assessment; sea level change in Asia, among others.

Keywords

  • Themes:Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Early Warning, Environment, Risk Identification & Assessment
  • Countries/Regions:Asia

  • Short URL:http://preventionweb.net/go/20503

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