Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

1 - Introduction

pp 1-5

2 - Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management: Challenges and Opportunities

pp 6-18

Part I - Case Studies from North America

pp 19-64

3 - Hurricane Katrina and the City of New Orleans

pp 21-30

4 - A Brief History of Flooding and Flood Control Measures Along the Mississippi River Basin

pp 31-41

5 - The 2003 and 2007 Wildfires in Southern California

pp 42-52

6 - Adapting to Extreme Heat Events: Thirty Years of Lessons Learned from the Kansas City, Missouri, Extreme Heat Program

pp 53-64

Part II - Case Studies from Australia

pp 65-106

7 - Drought and Water in the Murray-Darling basin: From Disaster Policy to Adaptation

pp 67-74

8 - After ‘Black Saturday’: Adapting to Bushfires in a Changing Climate

pp 75-86

9 - Cyclone Tracy and the Road to Improving Wind-Resistant Design

pp 87-94

10 - Adaptation and Resilience in Two Flood-Prone Queensland Communities

pp 95-106

Part III - Case Studies from Europe

pp 107-146

11 - Windstorms, the Most Costly Natural Hazard in Europe

pp 109-120

12 - The 2003 Heatwave: Impacts, Public Health Adaptation and Response in France

pp 121-127

13 - Lessons from River Floods in Central Europe, 1997–2010

pp 128-135

14 - Lessons Learned from the North Sea Flooding Disaster in the Netherlands, 1953

pp 136-146

Part IV - Case Studies from the Developing World

pp 147-196

15 - Adapting to Drought in the West African Sahel

pp 149-157

16 - The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Sri Lankan Experience

pp 158-166

17 - Recovery Efforts: The Case of the 2007 Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh

pp 167-173

18 - Coffee, Disasters and Social-Ecological Resilience in Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico

pp 174-180

19 - Responding to Floods in the Nile basin: A Case Study of the 1997–1998 Floods in the Upper White Nile

pp 181-189

20 - Floods in the Yangtze River Basin, China

pp 190-196