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Title The World at risk : natural hazards and climate change, Cambridge, MA 1992 / editor, Rafael Bras
Published New York : American Institute of Physics, [1993]
©1993

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Description xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series AIP conference proceedings ; 277
AIP conference proceedings ; no. 277
Contents Challenges of the decade / James P. Bruce -- Climate change and natural disasters / James C.I. Dooge -- The dependence of hurricane intensity on climate / Kerry A. Emanuel -- Tropical cyclone frequency and global warming / Richard E. Peterson and Thomas E. Warner -- The response of sea level to global warming / Andrew R. Solow -- The effect of rising sea level on the hydrology of coastal watersheds / William K. Nuttle -- Glacier-related hazards and climatic change / Steven G. Evans and John J. Clague -- Changes in water supply in Alpine regions due to glacier retreat / Mauri S. Pelto -- Lighting and forest fires in a changing climate / Colin Price and David Rind -- The Global electrical circuit as global thermonmeter / Earle Williams and Stan Heckman -- The relationship between ENSO events and California streamflows / Ercan Kahya and John A. Dracup -- Droughts and climate change / Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe -- Change / James P. Hughes, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, and Eric F. Wood -- Blowing dust and climate change / Richard E. Peterson and James M. Gregory -- Biomass burning and global change / Joel S. Levine ... [et al.]
Analysis Climate change
Climatic shifts
Global data
Natural disasters
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Notes (AIP conference proceedings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and author index
Notes AIP conference proceedings no:277 0094-243X
Subject Climatic changes -- Congresses.
Climatic changes.
Hazardous geographic environments -- Congresses.
Hazardous geographic environments.
Natural disasters -- Congresses.
Natural disasters.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Bras, Rafael L.
American Institute of Physics.
LC no. 93071333
ISBN 1563960664
Other Titles Natural hazards and climate change