TY - CHAP
T1 - CLIMATE AND WEATHER HAZARDS AND HAZARD DRIVERS
AU - Crowley, Kate
AU - Fedaeff, Nava
AU - Macara, Gregor
AU - Duncan, Melanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 selection and editorial matter, Ilan Kelman, Jessica Mercer and JC Gaillard; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Understanding natural hazards is, alongside understanding the capacities and vulnerabilities, a critical foundation for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA). There can be little progress in reducing risk and adapting to hazards without fully understanding where, when and how a hazard may impact an area. The chapter explores the natural processes that ‘drive’ climate and weather hazards: the long-term behaviour of the earth’s atmosphere and the short-term atmospheric variations respectively. It introduces large-scale processes currently triggering and fuelling the hazards we face. The chapter also explores the complexities of these hazards and highlights the challenges for DRR including CCA. Climate monitoring and the communication of warnings are important components for DRR including CCA. Ultimately, striving to understand large-scale processes in combination with projected climate change impacts, as well as our individual through to global vulnerabilities, improves our ability to implement DRR including CCA in the short and long term.
AB - Understanding natural hazards is, alongside understanding the capacities and vulnerabilities, a critical foundation for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA). There can be little progress in reducing risk and adapting to hazards without fully understanding where, when and how a hazard may impact an area. The chapter explores the natural processes that ‘drive’ climate and weather hazards: the long-term behaviour of the earth’s atmosphere and the short-term atmospheric variations respectively. It introduces large-scale processes currently triggering and fuelling the hazards we face. The chapter also explores the complexities of these hazards and highlights the challenges for DRR including CCA. Climate monitoring and the communication of warnings are important components for DRR including CCA. Ultimately, striving to understand large-scale processes in combination with projected climate change impacts, as well as our individual through to global vulnerabilities, improves our ability to implement DRR including CCA in the short and long term.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045452743&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315684260-5
DO - 10.4324/9781315684260-5
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85045452743
SN - 9781138924567
SP - 35
EP - 46
BT - The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction including Climate Change Adaptation
PB - Taylor & Francis
ER -