Description
Global Warming, Natural Hazards, and Emergency Management
Coordinators: Haddow George, Bullock Jane A., Haddow Kim
Language: EnglishSubjects for Global Warming, Natural Hazards, and Emergency Management:
Keywords
Climate Change; mitigation; Flood Insurance; efforts; Project Impact; program; Red River Basin; actions; Hazard Mitigation; james; DISASTER RESISTANT COMMUNITY; lee; Hazard Mitigation Efforts; witt; NFIP; federal; Wildfire Mitigation; agency; NFIP Insurance; local; Napa River; Urban Heat Island; East Grand Forks; Hazard Mitigation Program; Home Retrofit; Hazard Mitigation Actions; Deerfield Beach; AICP; IPCC Project; Red River; Tornado Alley; Grand Forks; Local Funding Source; Community Based Approach; International Water Institute
Publication date: 10-2008
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 08-2017
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Relié
Résumé
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Scientists predict the earth is facing 40-to-60 years of climate change, even if emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming gases stopped today. One inevitable consequence of the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere will be an increase in the frequency and severity of natural disaster events. Global Warming, Natural Hazards, and Emergency Management documents the imperative need for communities to prepare for the coming effects of climate change and provides a series of in-depth, road-tested recommendations on how to reduce risks for communities and businesses.
Frontline Advice for Increasing Defenses and Reducing Impacts of Global Warming
Authored and edited by emergency management and environmental protection professionals from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Sierra Club, this book offers case histories from communities across America that have successfully reduced the extent and consequences of natural disasters. These examples are becoming increasingly important to understand and replicate as the risks to communities created by a changing climate rise.
This book recognizes three fundamental principles essential to developing a disaster-prevention strategy:
The protection of natural systems is an important security measure
The reduction of disaster risk, not just response, is of great importance
Local communities must take the lead in prevention efforts
Provides Local Governments with Replicable Case Histories of Hazard Mitigation Efforts
This no-nonsense reference is a procedural roadmap for emergency managers, policy makers, and community officials. It explains how to develop community partnerships among a myriad of stakeholders; identifies staffing and resource requirements for successful programs; and p
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