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Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation. Special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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In this paper, a special report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) has been jointly coordinated by Working Groups I (WGI) and II (WGII) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).Abstract:
This Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) has been jointly coordinated by Working Groups I (WGI) and II (WGII) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report focuses on the relationship between climate change and extreme weather and climate events, the impacts of such events, and the strategies to manage the associated risks. This Special Report, in particular, contributes to frame the challenge of dealing with extreme weather and climate events as an issue in decision making under uncertainty, analyzing response in the context of risk management. The report consists of nine chapters, covering risk management; observed and projected changes in extreme weather and climate events; exposure and vulnerability to as well as losses resulting from such events; adaptation options from the local to the international scale; the role of sustainable development in modulating risks; and insights from specific case studies. (LN)read more
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Farmers’ risk perception, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change in rural Pakistan
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Projected increases in intensity, frequency, and terrestrial carbon costs of compound drought and aridity events.
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Temporal-spatial characteristics of severe drought events and their impact on agriculture on a global scale
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a more precise spherical area-based statistical method to identify the world's severely drought-prone areas, given that the corresponding ground area for a 0.5-degree grid in different latitudes is different.
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Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction
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Global trends in extreme precipitation: climate models versus observations
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Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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