Book contents
- Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change
- Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management: Challenges and Opportunities
- Part I Case Studies from North America
- Part II Case Studies from Australia
- Part III Case Studies from Europe
- Part IV Case Studies from the Developing World
- 15 Adapting to Drought in the West African Sahel
- 16 The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Sri Lankan Experience
- 17 Recovery Efforts: The Case of the 2007 Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh
- 18 Coffee, Disasters and Social-Ecological Resilience in Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico
- 19 Responding to Floods in the Nile basin: A Case Study of the 1997–1998 Floods in the Upper White Nile
- 20 Floods in the Yangtze River Basin, China
- Part V Synthesis Chapters
- Index
16 - The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Sri Lankan Experience
from Part IV - Case Studies from the Developing World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change
- Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management: Challenges and Opportunities
- Part I Case Studies from North America
- Part II Case Studies from Australia
- Part III Case Studies from Europe
- Part IV Case Studies from the Developing World
- 15 Adapting to Drought in the West African Sahel
- 16 The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Sri Lankan Experience
- 17 Recovery Efforts: The Case of the 2007 Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh
- 18 Coffee, Disasters and Social-Ecological Resilience in Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico
- 19 Responding to Floods in the Nile basin: A Case Study of the 1997–1998 Floods in the Upper White Nile
- 20 Floods in the Yangtze River Basin, China
- Part V Synthesis Chapters
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change , pp. 158 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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