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Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters
Intense climate-related disasters—floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, temperatures, on average, have been rising, and are becoming more variable and more extreme. Rainfall has also been more variable and more extreme. Is there an ominous link between the glo...
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Action on disaster risk reduction can support sustainable development under climate change. 2.1 Increasing weather related losses According to data collected by Munich Re, global costs (inflation adjusted, 2006 dollars) of weather-related disasters have increased from an annual average US$8.9 billion (1977-1986) to US$45.1 billion (1997-2006). Munich Re’s data comes from their NatCatSERVICE dat...
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Current literature on disaster response argues that societies providing greater local participation in decision-making and which have more community coordination and governance organizations are more resilient to climate-related disasters. In contrast, recent research in psychology has argued that societies with tighter social norms and greater enforcement of those norms are more resilient. Thi...
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Winter weather patterns are anticipated to become more variable with increasing average global temperatures. Research shows that excess morbidity and mortality occurs during cold weather periods. We critically reviewed evidence relating temperature variability, health outcomes, and adaptation strategies to cold weather. Health outcomes included cardiovascular-, respiratory-, cerebrovascular-, a...
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MILLER, L. KEITH., AND LAURENCE IRVING. Temperaturerelated nerve function in warmand cold-climate muskrats. Am. J. Physiol. 213(5): 1295-1298. 1967.-The bare extremities of the semiaquatic muskrat exhibit large temperature fluctuations in response to varying thermal conditions of the animal or its environment. Tissues of these heterothermous extremities, including nerves, must remain operationa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
سال: 1993
ISSN: 1049-023X,1945-1938
DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x00047993