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Contributors.. Preface.. 1 Introduction.. 2 Climate change and disaster risk management: challenges and opportunities.. Part I Case Studies from North America.. 3 Hurricane Katrina and the city of New Orleans.. 4 A brief history of flooding and flood control measures along the Mississippi River basin.. 5 The 2003 and 2007 wildfires in southern California.. 6 Adapting to extreme heat events: thirty years of lessons learned from the Kansas City, Missouri, extreme heat program.. Part II Case Studies from Australia.. 7 Drought and water in the Murray-Darling basin: from disaster policy to adaptation.. 8 After 'Black Saturday': adapting to bushfires in a changing climate.. 9 Cyclone Tracy and the road to improving wind-resistant design.. 10 Adaptation and resilience in two flood-prone Queensland communities.. Part III Case Studies from Europe.. 11 Windstorms, the most costly natural hazard in Europe.. 12 The 2003 heatwave: impacts, public health adaptation and response in France.. 13 Lessons from river floods in central Europe, 1997-2010.. 14 Lessons learned from the North Sea flooding disaster in the Netherlands, 1953.. Part IV Case Studies from the Developing World.. 15 Adapting to drought in the West African Sahel.. 16 The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: Sri Lankan experience.. 17 Recovery efforts: the case of the 2007 cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh.. 18 Coffee, disasters and social-ecological resilience in Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico.. 19 Responding to floods in the Nile basin: a case study of the 1997-1998 floods in the Upper White Nile.. 20 Floods in the Yangtze River basin, China.. Part V Synthesis Chapters.. 21 Disasters and development.. 22 What next? Climate change as a game-changer for policy and practice.. 23 Barriers and limits to adaptation: cautionary notes.. 24 Lessons learned for adaptation to climate change.. 25 Afterword: floods, storms, fire and pestilence - disaster risk in Australia during 2010-2011.. Index

This volume presents eighteen case studies of natural disasters from Australia, Europe, North America and developing countries. By comparing the impacts, it seeks to identify what moves people to adapt, which adaptive activities succeed and which fail, and the underlying reasons, and the factors that determine when adaptation is required and when simply bearing the impact may be the more appropriate response. Much has been written about the theory of adaptation, and high-level, especially international, policy responses to climate change. This book aims to inform actual adaptation practice - what works, what does not, and why. It explores some of the lessons we can learn from past disasters and the adaptation that takes place after the event in preparation for the next. This volume will be especially useful for researchers and decision makers in policy and government concerned with climate change adaptation, emergency management, disaster risk reduction, environmental policy and planning. Inglés