Heat Wave in Canada:: Risk, Knowledge, and Communication - Softcover

Dhar Chowdhury, Parnali; Haque, C. Emdad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3846598259 ISBN 13: 9783846598252

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

This book is about what experts and the public know and think about climate change-induced heat wave hazards in Canada. What the public institutions, private enterprises, and individuals can do about minimizing the health, infrastructure and effects are illustrated by analysing responses from urban communities, specialists and decision-makers. Thus, the book is useful to community members, local government officials, emergency and disaster managers, academia, policy and decision-makers. The book is organized into five main chapters to depict with narratives from local level community members that included not only the general public but also specific vulnerable groups such as, the elderly, low income groups as well as from scientists, regulators and managers. The findings make specific recommendations for improving climate change, heat wave and other risk communications and formulating effective management strategies. Overall, this is an excellent record of public and experts' risk perception, gaps and overlaps of climate change-induced heat wave in Canada.

About this title

About the Author

Parnali Dhar Chowdhury is a Ph.D candidate at renowned Natural Resources Institute of the University of Manitoba, Canada. She has published more than twenty research articles in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to numerous international conferences. Currently, she is working on climate and societal changes, and dengue disease in Bangladesh.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3846598259
• ISBN 13: 9783846598252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156