Reducing Vulnerability to Weather and Climate Extremes

2002 • 40 pages • EN

Written by Bilinmeyen yazar

This brochure outlines the increased vulnerability of people and their environments to weather and climate extremes and the corresponding increase of these hazards over the 1991-2000 decade. It gives an overview of the diversity in weather and climate hazards, their adverse consequences for society and proposes methodologies and tools for risk assessment, monitoring, prediction and early warnings through the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) of the World Meteorological Organization.--Publisher's description.