… Developing countries have many opportunities to integrate climate adaptation in disaster
risk-reduction efforts (6). More generally, disaster … Therefore, disaster risk reduction must be
core to climate adaptation policies. Numerous mechanisms for action exist that can contribute to …

… extremes, it is reasonable to predict ever-increasing losses even without any detrimental
climate changes. Recognition of these trends in societal vulnerability to weather-climate extremes
… , 1998: Evaluation of weather catastrophe data for use in climate change investigations. …

… and local communities following a disaster. Yet, guidelines governing the president's discretion
are vague and the total federal cost of disaster assistance is extremely difficult to determine.
This study analyzes flood-related presidential disaster declarations from 1965 to 1997. It …

… Abstract In recent years the media, politicians, and activists have popularized the notion that
climate change has made disasters worse. … Panel on Climate Change, the underlying
scientific research, and the data to give you the latest science on disasters and climate change. …

… disasters is being driven by where and how we chose to live and with more people living in
vulnerable locations with more to lose, natural disasters remain an important problem irrespective
of a warming climate… tackling climate change and reducing the cost of natural disasters …

… focused on disaster mitigation/climate adaptation to other sorts of development policies; hence
disaster mitigation policies are at … disaster relief in the aftermath of a horrific disaster are,
in many cases, easier to secure than funds for long-term reduction of vulnerability to disasters…

… climate debate; consequently, the climate debate shapes how we think about disasters and
… climate change may have an effect on future disasters, our analysis of hurricanes and tropical
cyclones, using IPCC data and assumptions, shows that for every $1 of additional disaster …

… This study is one of the first to use insurance catastrophe models to examine the potential
impacts of climate change on extreme storms. It focuses on one of the most costly aspects of
today's weather—hurricanes, typhoons, and windstorms, because of their potential to cause …

… in climate and effects on people and the environment are identical to FCCC World; the two
worlds differ only in the source of the climate … Of course, the international community has for
many years discussed disaster relief, debt forgiveness, and development assistance. A new …

… The exact intensity at the point of landfall is often unknowable because of an acknowledged
undersampling of the atmospheric environment, yet we have confidence in the discrimination
between minor and major landfalls. The term hurricane is used generically across all global …