This book provides background on the risks relevant in water systems planning, the different approaches to scenario definition in water system planning, and an introduction to the decision-scaling methodology upon which the decision tree is ...

This book includes 18 papers representing the state of the art of detection, assessment mitigation and adaption to urban overheating.

James R. Holton

As the nation's economic activities, security concerns, and stewardship of natural resources become increasingly complex and globally interrelated, they become ever more sensitive to adverse impacts from weather, climate, and other natural ...

This unique book surveys innovative remote sensing approaches to provide you with new perspectives on large-area drought monitoring and early warning.

"While the energy sector is a primary target of efforts to arrest and reverse the growth of greenhouse gas emissions and lower the carbon footprint of development, it is also expected to be increasingly affected by unavoidable climate ...

This volume is the outcome of contributions from 51 scientists who were invited to expose their latest findings on precipitation research and in particular, on the measurement, estimation and prediction of precipitation.

Infrastructure—electricity, telecommunications, roads, water, and sanitation—are central to people¡¯s lives.