Climate extremes and society /

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Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2008.
Description:xv, 340 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7195379
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Other authors / contributors:Diaz, Henry F.
Murnane, Richard J.
ISBN:9780521870283 (hbk.)
0521870283 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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505 0 0 |t Impacts of weather and climate extremes.  |t Extreme climatic events and their impacts : examples from the Swiss Alps /  |r Martin Beniston --  |t Impact of weather and climate extremes on coral growth /  |r M. James, C. Crabbe, Emma L. L. Walker, David B. Stephenson --  |t Forecasting US insured hurricane losses /  |r Thomas H. Jagger, James B. Elsner, Mark A. Saunders --  |t Integrating hurricane loss models with climate models /  |r Charles C. Watson, Jr., Mark E. Johnson --  |t Exploration of trends in normalized weather-related catastrophe losses /  |r Stuart Miller, Robert Muir-Wood, Auguste Boissonnade --  |t All overview of the impact of climate change on the insurance industry /  |r Andrew Dlugolecki --  |t Toward a comprehensive loss inventory of weather and climate hazards /  |r Susan L. Cutter, Melanie Gall, Christopher T. Emrich --  |t Catastrophe modeling response to Hurricane Katrina /  |r Robert Muir-Wood, Patricia Grossi --  |t Risk Prediction Initiative : a successful science-business partnership for analyzing natural hazard risk /  |r Richard J. Murnane, Anthony Knap. 
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