Climate Change, Extreme Events and Disaster Risk Reduction: Towards Sustainable Development Goals (Hardcover, 2018)

Introducing the Linkages between Climate Change, Extreme Events and Disaster Risk Reduction.- Analysis of weather- and climate-related disasters in mountain regions using different disaster databases.- Influence of climate change on environmental hazards and human well-being in the urban areas - Warsaw case study versus general problems.- Physiographic Influence on Rainfall Variability: A Case study of Upper Ganga Basin.- Water Deficit Estimation under Climate Change and Irrigation Conditions in the Fergana Valley, Central Asia.- Long-Term Trend of NDVI Response to Rainfall: A Geo-Spatial Approach.- Variability of Temperature and Rainfall in the Upper Beas Basin, Western Himalayas.- The Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Food Security.- Sedimentation Induced Depositional Lands of the Gumti River of Tripura and its Land Use Pattern.- Landscape Changes in the Activity of Higher Altitude Vascular Plants Species in the OB Plateau (Altai Krai, Russia).- Application of Classification and Regression Trees for Spatial Prediction of Rainfall Induced Shallow Landslides in the Uttarakhand Area (India) Using GIS.- Is Climate Change the Nemesis of Rural Development?: An Analysis of Patterns and Trends of Zimbabwean Droughts?.- Entering the new +2°C Global Warming Age and a Threat of World Ocean Expansion for Sustainable Economic Development.- Climate change and coastal mega-cities: disaster risk assessment and responses in Shanghai City.- La Nina event 2010-2011: hydroclimatic effects and socioeconomic impacts in Colombia.- The Experience of Disaster Risk Reduction and Economic Losses Reduction in Malaysia during the Water Crisis 1998 in the Context of the Next El Nino Strongest on Record Maximum 2015.- Sustainable disaster risk reduction in mountain agriculture: Agroforestry experiences in Kaule, mid-hills of Nepal.- Building Community Resilience to Flash Floods: Lessons Learnt from a case study in the Valles Urban Area, SLP, Mexico.- Quantification of Geodiversity of Sikkim (India) and its Implications for Conservation and Disaster Risk Reduction Research.- Peak Discharge Analyses for Flood Management in Lower Gandak Basin.