Climate and Natural Hazard Risks

Peter Sammonds, Lisa Guppy, Ting Sun

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443273698
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science

Climate and Natural Hazard Risks is an in-depth examination of the physical, environmental, economic, and social impacts of climate change and natural hazards on vulnerable populations in different regions around the world. The authors open with the simple question "What is risk?," taking a detailed look at historical and global trends and risk frameworks as they relate to the Earth system and climate change. The authors then examine the drivers of social and physical vulnerability. From there, the chapters systematically review different hazards and their implications for risk (hurricanes, cyclones, flooding, extreme temperatures, food insecurity, earthquakes, tsunamis). The authors then delve into the latest methods and research for multihazard risk assessment. The book closes with challenging explorations of resilience, and environmental and social transitions for climate change. Students, practitioners and policy-makers working across climate science, hazard risk assessment, disaster management and humanitarian response will find this instructive and thought-provoking text essential reading. - Examines hazard risk and vulnerability through a transdisciplinary approach - Demonstrates the links between climate change, natural hazards, humanitarian crises and disasters - Explains modern approaches to hazard, vulnerability and risk analyses providing an analytical toolbox, case studies and worked examples - An accessible text book for the student with up-to-date research and methods for the professional

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1: What is risk?
• Chapter 2: Global trends
• Chapter 3: Risk frameworks
• Chapter 4: Dynamic Earth
• Chapter 5: Earth's climate
• Chapter 6: Climate change, the threat multiplier
• Chapter 7: Social vulnerability
• Chapter 8: Physical vulnerability
• Chapter 9: Temperature extremes and drought risks
• Chapter 10: Flood risk
• Chapter 11: Cyclone risk
• Chapter 12: Geological hazard risks
• Chapter 13: Risk assessment
• Chapter 14: Resilience
• Chapter 15: Transitions
• Acronyms
• Units
• Terms and definitions
• Appendix A: Timeline of climate science and hazard risk events
• Appendix B: Qualitative and quantitative methods
• Appendix C: Analytical hierarchy process
• Index