Extreme Weather, Health, and Communities : Interdisciplinary Engagement Strategies - Steinberg, Sheila Lakshmi; Sprigg, William A.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
Introduction -- Superstorm Sandy: a Game Changer? -- Extreme Weather: Politics and Public Communication -- Dust Storms, Human Health and a Global Early Warning System -- Interdisciplinary Engagement of People and Place around Extreme Weather -- Engaging Communities to Assess the Health Effects of Extreme Weather in the Arctic -- Refining the Process of Science Support for Communities around Extreme Weather Events and Climate Impacts -- Reducing Vulnerability to Extreme Heat through Interdisciplinary Research and Stakeholder Engagement -- Sociospatial Modeling for climate-based emergencies: Extreme Heat Vulnerability -- Drought and Health in the Context of Public Engagement -- Extreme Weather: Mental Health Challenges and Community Response Strategies -- Extreme Winter: Weaving Weather and Climate into a Narrative through Laura Ingalls Wilder -- The Air We Breathe: How Extreme Weather Conditions Harm Us -- Human Response to and Consequences of the May 22, 2011, Joplin Tornado -- Approaches for Building Community Resilience to Extreme Heat.
Keywords: Natural disasters; Climate change; Regional planning; Urban planning; Emergency medicine; Public health; Physical geography; Natural Hazards; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Emergency Services; Public Health; Earth System Sciences