Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters

Thomas, Vinod; López, Ramón | December 2015
Abstract
Intense climate-related natural disasters—floods, storms, as well as droughts and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide. Is there an ominous link between the global increase of these hydrometeorological and climatological events on the one side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors—rising population exposure, greater population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards—behind the increased frequency of intense climate-related natural disasters. All are positively linked—with precipitation positively associated with hydrometeorological events and negatively associated with climatological events. Global climate change indicators also show positive and highly significant effects
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Thomas, Vinod; López, Ramón. 2015. Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/5274. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
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2313-6537 (Print), 2313-6545 (e-ISSN)
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Climate
Climate change
Climate impacts assessment
Global climate change
Rural Development
Rural Development Projects
Climatic change
Climatic influence
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http://hdl.handle.net/11540/5274
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