... Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, over
the past 50 years average temperatures in Alaska, western
Canada and eastern Russia have increased by an average of
3 to 4°C.
Many experts project that average ... hopefully
stabilize it. As a result, we have no choice but to adapt to this reality. According
to a Natural Resources Canada report, to reduce the negative impacts of
climate...
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... waste, saving
more than $2, 000 annually. The Yellow
Bag Program (www.toronto.ca/
yellowbag/) is a waste management
initiative that encourages Toronto’s
commercial customers to decrease
garbage ... interest
rates are typically higher than a traditional loan.
Option 6: Manufacturer-guaranteed Savings —
Some manufacturers offer guaranteed energy
savings in addition to performance warran...
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... as an increased
population and concentration of wealth in areas
that are vulnerable to natural hazards (Chang-
non, 20 03; Muir-Wood et al., 20 06; Crompton
and McAneney, 20 08; Miller et al., 20 08). ... heatwave that caused
35,000 deaths, and river floods in the UK in
20 07. The tsunami in Asia in 20 04 was a large cat-
astrophe causing more than 28 3,000 deaths while
a major ea...
... financial arrangements against natural
hazard risks.
5.3. Role of insurers in managing natural
disaster risk
It is useful to explore the role that insurance
arrangements can play in managing natural ... on extreme weather events and
resultant damage and designing adequate adap-
tation policies to manage potential changes in
these risks (Pielke et al., 20 07).
3. Assessing natural catastro...
... Shih
et al., 20 08; Ungar, 20 08) and climate change
(McComas and Shanahan, 1999; Weingart et al.,
20 00; Berglez, 20 08; Olsson and Paglia, 20 08).
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by ... S. and Boissonade, A. , 20 06. The
search for trends in a global catalogue of normalized
weather-related catastrophe losses. Workshop on
Climate Change and Disaster...
... as climate change as
well as strategies to manage these risks; to make
sure that state water resource plans comply with
the Act; to follow an environmental watering
plan and the salinity management ... water and mismanage-
ment of the river system. According to their
frame, the mismanagement was caused by the
fact that there was no national water manage-
ment authority (The Austra...