The World at risk [electronic resource] : natural hazards and climate change, Cambridge, MA 1992 / editor, Rafael Bras.
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New York :
American Institute of Physics,
©1993.
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| Series: | AIP conference proceedings ;
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Table of Contents:
- Challenges of the decade / James P. Bruce
- Climate change and natural disasters / James C.I. Dooge
- The dependence of hurricane intensity on climate / Kerry A. Emanuel
- Tropical cyclone frequency and global warming / Richard E. Peterson and Thomas E. Warner
- The response of sea level to global warming / Andrew R. Solow
- The effect of rising sea level on the hydrology of coastal watersheds / William K. Nuttle
- Glacier-related hazards and climatic change / Steven G. Evans and John J. Clague
- Changes in water supply in Alpine regions due to glacier retreat / Mauri S. Pelto
- Lighting and forest fires in a changing climate / Colin Price and David Rind
- The Global electrical circuit as global thermonmeter / Earle Williams and Stan Heckman
- The relationship between ENSO events and California streamflows / Ercan Kahya and John A. Dracup
- Droughts and climate change / Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe
- Change / James P. Hughes, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, and Eric F. Wood
- Blowing dust and climate change / Richard E. Peterson and James M. Gregory
- Biomass burning and global change / Joel S. Levine [and others]