Climate Change and Extreme Events
- 1st Edition - February 26, 2021
- Editor: Ali Fares
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 7 0 0 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 2 8 8 - 0
Climate Change and Extreme Events uses a multidisciplinary approach to discuss the relationship between climate change-related weather extremes and their impact on human lives. To… Read more
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Request a sales quoteClimate Change and Extreme Events uses a multidisciplinary approach to discuss the relationship between climate change-related weather extremes and their impact on human lives. Topics discussed are grouped into four major sections: weather parameters, hydrological responses, mitigation and adaptation, and governance and policies, with each addressed with regard to past, present and future perspectives. Sections give an overview of weather parameters and hydrological responses, presenting current knowledge and a future outlook on air and stream temperatures, precipitation, storms and hurricanes, flooding, and ecosystem responses to these extremes. Other sections cover extreme weather events and discuss the role of the state in policymaking.
This book provides a valuable interdisciplinary resource to climate scientists and meteorologists, environmental researchers, and social scientists interested in extreme weather.
- 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
Environmental scientists; climate, water, and soil scientists; graduate students. Consultants and governmental agencies related to climate change and meteorology, social science
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: Extreme events and climate change: A multidisciplinary approach
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Overview of the chapters
- Chapter 2: Temperature extremes in a changing climate
- Abstract
- Background
- Temperature extreme analysis and projection
- Mitigation and adaptation strategies
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 3: Climate change and extreme river temperature
- Abstract
- Introduction
- What are river thermal extremes?
- Thermal processes affected by climate change
- Past and current trends and shifts in observations
- River thermal modeling and scenarios at global, regional, and local scales
- Future work
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4: Severe convective storms in a changing climate
- Abstract
- Observations and trends
- Environments
- SCSs and climate change
- Drivers of interannual variability
- Future research
- Chapter 5: Response of terrestrial net primary productivity to precipitation extremes: Patterns, mechanisms, and uncertainties
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Patterns and mechanisms of net primary productivity responses to PPT extremes
- Uncertainties and pathways forward
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Flood early warning systems under changing climate and extreme events
- Abstract
- Introduction
- FWS concept and methodology
- Flood monitoring system
- Radar-based FWSs
- Data-driven FWS
- Communications
- Challenges and future of FWSs
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 7: Lifeline infrastructures and hydroclimate extremes climate: A future outlook
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- Organization of the chapter
- Quantifying risk from extreme events
- Analyzing extremes
- Trend analysis
- Spatiotemporal variability in volatility
- Network perspective on critical infrastructure
- Mitigation analysis on Mumbai and Indian Railway Networks
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8: Form, function, and nomenclature: Deconstructing green infrastructure and its role in a changing climate
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Systematic review
- Characteristics of green infrastructure
- Green infrastructure functions
- Green infrastructure benefits
- Green infrastructure nomenclature
- Conclusions
- Chapter 9: Adaptation to climate extremes and sea level rise in coastal cities of developing countries
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Typologies of coastal adaptation to climate change
- Methodology
- Climate risks in coastal cities of developing countries
- Adaptation response to climate extremes and SLR
- Discussions
- Conclusions
- Appendix: List of case studies and documents used as a primary data source
- Chapter 10: Multilevel governance in climate change adaptation: Conceptual clarification and future outlook
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Multilevel governance—Conceptual clarification
- MLG concept in climate adaptation
- Research trends in climate adaptation using MLG and future outlook
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11: Is the local fulfilling its promise as the agent and site of global climate change governance? The status of local climate mitigation in the United States
- Abstract
- Introduction and background
- US climate change policy and politics
- Data and methods
- The status of CAPs
- Discussion and conclusion
- Chapter 12: The risk of the electrical power grid due to natural hazards and recovery challenge following disasters and record floods: What next?
- Abstract
- The electrical power grid is a critical infrastructure: What can happen, and how can it fail?
- The vulnerability of CIs and hazards to which they are exposed
- Climate change potential additional stress on the CI: The flood case
- Risk assessment and complexity: Limitations and development
- Assessing flood and outage risk based on past events
- Resilience definition, quantification, and concept
- Resilience to damage of CIs fights power system outages
- Emergency response and system recovery
- Emergency system failure rates for Hurricane Katrina and the Fukushima nuclear events
- Enhancing power grid “resilience”
- Managing the response and improving the systems: What next?
- Index
- No. of pages: 254
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 26, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128227008
- eBook ISBN: 9780128232880
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Ali Fares
Professor Fares served on administrative positions as Interim Vice President of Research, Interim Dean and Director, and Associate Director of Research. He served as a Professor of watershed hydrology at the University of Hawaii-Manoa for 11 years during which he established an academic water resource program. He has trained tens of students and post-doctoral fellows. He developed water allocation software packages for Hawaii sand contributed to multiple statewide initiatives. He worked on citrus best management practices at the University of Florida. Professor Fares is/was a PI and Co-PI on $26 million research funding, half of which are currently active. He has 115 articles, is Series Editor of the Advances in Water Security book series, has given several keynote presentations, and organized several international conferences and workshops. He received his M.S and Doctoral Degrees from the University of Florida and he also received his B.S of Horticultural Engineering, University of Sussa, Tunisia.
Affiliations and expertise
Endowed Professor of Water Security and Water-Energy-Food Nexus.Read Climate Change and Extreme Events on ScienceDirect