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BACKGROUND Climate change is altering climate patterns, mainly increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme events with potentially serious impacts on natural resources and the people that use them. Adapting to such impacts will require the integration of scientific and local (folk) knowledge, especially the first-hand experiences and perceptions of resource users such as fishers. In this ...

In this chapter we discuss extreme weather events as they relate to climate adaptation. First, we summarize the state of the science regarding how different kinds of extreme events have been or will be influenced by global warming. Second, we describe the different kinds of tools that exist for extreme event hazard assessment. These include extreme value theory, which allows inference of rare e...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impacts of natural disasters to inform both the modeling of potential future climate damages and climate adaptation policy related to extreme events. It covers papers that estimate the short-and/or long-run economic impacts of weather-related extreme events as well as studies identifying the determinants of the ma...

Extreme climatic events have a major role in the structuring of biological communities, and their occurrence is expected to increase due to climate change. Here I use a manipulative approach to test the effects of extreme storm events on rocky mid-shore assemblages. This study shows that an extreme storm can cause more negative effects than several mild storms, primarily by bringing the biologi...