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Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Introduction to El Niño -- 2 El Niño and Its Effects -- 3 What El Niño Can Do: Mapping Global and Regional Hotspots -- 4 Forecasting El Niño and What It Means to Be "El Niño Ready" -- 5 Deconstructing Readiness -- 6 Limits to Readiness -- 7 Being Ready: The Who, the by When, and the to What Degree -- 8 Strategic and Tactical Responses -- 9 Using El Niño History and Science -- 10 Climate Change and ENSO -- 11 "Mostly El Niño": Uncertainty and Degrees of Attribution -- References -- East Asia -- China -- 1 Climate, Water, and Weather Setting -- 2 Strength and Reliability of El Niño Teleconnections in China -- 3 Forecasting El Niño -- 4 El Niño Analogue Years Noted -- 5 Early Warning -- 6 CMA's El Niño Information and Forecasts -- 7 First Observations of 2015-2016 El Niño -- 8 Impacts Across China -- 9 Regional Impacts of El Niño -- 10 Government and NMHS -- 11 Inter-Agencies Involved with El Niño Forecasts and Impacts -- 12 Media Coverage -- 13 Hurdles and Obstacles -- 14 El Niño-Related Surprises -- 15 Some Lessons Learned from El Niño Events -- References -- South Asia -- The Maldives -- 1 Political and Economic Setting -- 2 Climate of Maldives -- 3 Strength of El Niño Teleconnections in Maldives -- 4 Challenges in Communicating El Niño to and Its Impacts on Society -- 5 Forecasting El Niño for Maldives -- 6 Teleconnections During the 2014-16 El Niño and Their Impacts -- 6.1 2014-2016 El Niño Event -- 6.2 Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) -- 6.3 Indian Ocean Warming -- 6.4 Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) -- 7 Climate Over Maldives, 2014-2016 -- 7.1 Rainfall -- 7.2 Temperature -- 8 What Were the Impacts on the Maldives? -- 8.1 Coral Bleaching -- 8.2 Flooding -- 8.3 Dengue -- 8.4 Fisheries -- 9 Hurdles and Obstacles -- 10 Lessons -- References -- Pakistan.

This volume is an outgrowth of a project undertaken by the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Policy Analysis to identify societal responses to extreme climate-related events in North America.

This publication provides a review of early warning systems in operation, while exploring a range of hazards including hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, tsunami and volcanoes.--Publisher's description.

This multidisciplinary book comprehensively describes one of the worst human-made environmental catastrophes of the twentieth century: the slow onset of incremental changes which affected the Aral Sea region and its peoples. It provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history

Environmental degradation in the Aral Sea basin has been a touchstone for increasing public awareness of environmental issues. The Aral crisis has been touted as a 'quiet Chernobyl' and as one of the worst human-made environmental catastrophes of the twentieth century. This multidisciplinary 1999 book comprehensively describes the slow onset of low grade but incremental changes (i.e. creeping environmental change) which affected the region and its peoples. Through a set of case studies, it describes how the region's decision-makers allowed these changes to grow into an environmental and societal nightmare. It outlines many lessons to be learned for other areas undergoing detrimental creeping environmental change, and provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Section I: Background, Concepts, Overview -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Human Impact on Climate: The Evolution of an Awareness -- 3 Politics and the Air Around Us: International Policy Action on Atmospheric Pollution by Trace Gases -- 4 Grappling for a Glimpse of the Future -- 5 Statistics of Climate Change: Implications for Scenario Development -- 6 Impact Assessment by Analogy: Comparing the Impacts of the Ogallala Aquifer Depletion and CO2-Induced Climate Change -- Section II: Case Studies -- 7 Great Lakes Levels and Climate Change: Impacts, Responses, and Futures -- 8 The Rising Level of the Great Salt Lake: An Analogue of Societal Adjustment to Climate Change -- 9 Future Sea-Level Rise and Its Implications for Charleston, South Carolina -- 10 Institutional Response to Sea-Level Rise: The Case of Louisiana -- 11 Climate Variability and the Mississippi River Navigation System -- 12 Climate Variability and the Colorado River Compact: Implications for Responding to Climate Change -- 13 Climate Change and California: Past, Present, and Future Vulnerabilities -- 14 Analyzing the Risk of Drought: The Occoquan Experience -- 15 The Ogallala Aquifer and Carbon Dioxide: Are Policy Responses Applicable? -- 16 Public and Private Sector Responses to Florida Citrus Freezes -- Section III: Forecasting by Analogy -- 17 Summary.