Natural disasters due to climate change in India

Disasters and climate change

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...

Is Education a Key to Reducing Vulnerability to Natural Disasters and hence Unavoidable Climate Change?

The collection of articles in this Special Feature is part of a larger project on “Forecasting Societies’ Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change” (an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council to Wolfgang Lutz). In investigating how global change will affect population vulnerability to climate variability and extremes, the project aims to help develop strategies that enable societies to bette...

Natural solutions to climate change

Fifty years ago, humans harboured the hubristic idea that they could alter the weather and climate to their advantage, perhaps to prevent future ice ages or to induce rainfall in drought-stricken regions. these high-flying hopes were eventually doused by reality; today, we have the more humble objective of merely keeping the climate stable—in particular, mitigating the impact of greenhouse gase...

Climate change and natural disasters – integrating science and practice to protect health

BACKGROUND Hydro-meteorological disasters are the focus of this paper. The authors examine, to which extent climate change increases their frequency and intensity. METHODS Review of IPCC-projections of climate-change related extreme weather events and related literature on health effects. RESULTS Projections show that climate change is likely to increase the frequency, intensity, duration, ...

Humanitarian crises due to natural disasters and armed conflict.