Heads up! early warning systems for climate-, water- and weather-related hazards / [electronic resource] : edited by Michael H. Glantz. - Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2009. - xxiii, 195 p. : col. ill., col. maps.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Climate-, water- and weather-related hazards -- Too much, too little -- Global warming -- Earth hazards -- Concluding thoughts.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Climatic changes--Forecasting.
Climatic changes--Forecasting--Environmental aspects.
Geographic information systems.
Weather forecasting.


Electronic books.

QC981.8.C5 / H43 2009eb

363.34