
Climate Change and Extreme Events
Description
Key Features
- Provides an integrated interdisciplinary approach to how climate change impacts the hydrological system
- Addresses significant knowledge gaps in our understanding of climate change and extreme events
- Discusses the societal impacts of climate change-related weather extremes, including multilevel governance and adaptation policy
Readership
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Climate Change and Extreme Weather
2. Temperature Extremes in a Changing Climate
3. Link between Climate Change and Duration and Frequency of Stream Extreme Temperatures
4. Severe Convective Storms in a Changing Climate (Tornadoes)
5. Precipitation Extremes in a Changing Climate
6. Ecosystem Responses to Precipitation Extremes: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Implications
7. Flood Warning for a Resilient Future under a Changing Climate. (Tentative)
8. Lifeline Infrastructures and Hydro-climate Extremes Climate: A Future Outlook
9. Form, Function and Nomenclature: Deconstructing Green Infrastructure and its Role in a Changing Climate
10. Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Sea Level Rise in Coastal Cities of Developing Countries
11. Multilevel governance of climate change adaptation: Future outlook
12. Change Governance at the Federal, State and Local Levels; Politics and Jurisdictional Capacity
Product details
- No. of pages: 254
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2021
- Published: February 26, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128227008
- eBook ISBN: 9780128232880
About the Editor
Ali Fares
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