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Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments

Name: Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments
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Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

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Climate hazards are the world’s most widespread, deadliest and costliest natural disasters. Knowledge of climate hazard dynamics is critical since the impacts of climate change, population growth, development projects and migration affect both the impact and severity of disasters. Current global events highlight how hazards can lead to significant financial losses, increased mortality rates and political instability. This book examines climate hazard crises in contemporary Asia, identifying how hazards from the Middle East through South and Central Asia and China have the power to reshape our globalised world. In an era of changing climates, knowledge of hazard dynamics is essential to mitigating disasters and strengthening livelihoods and societies across Asia. By integrating human exposure to climate factors and disaster episodes, the book explores the environmental forces that drive disasters and their social implications. Focusing on a range of Asian countries, landscapes and themes, the chapters address several scales (province, national, regional), different hazards (drought, flood, temperature, storms, dust), environments (desert, temperate, mountain, coastal) and issues (vulnerability, development, management, politics) to present a diverse, comprehensive evaluation of climate hazards in Asia. This book offers an understanding of the challenges climate hazards present, their critical nature and the effort needed to mitigate climate hazards in 21st-century Asia. Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments is vital reading for those interested and engaged in Asia’s development and well-being today and will be of interest to those working in Geography, Development Studies, Environmental Sciences, Sociology and Political Science.

Author Biography:

Troy Sternberg is a researcher at the School of Geography, Oxford University. His research focuses on climate hazard impact on environments and societies across Asian drylands.

Release date Australia

January 25th, 2017

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

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Edited by Troy Sternberg

Illustrations

9 Tables, black and white; 24 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

236

Series

Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

Dimensions

156x234x20

ISBN-13

9781472446466

Product ID

25001880

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