Overview
Maps extreme temperature increase scenarios in Brazil
Highlights the risks of dangerous levels of warming rates on water availability and food production
Discusses the effects of heatwaves on human health
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Table of contents(9 chapters)
Keywords
- Dangerous climate change in Brazil
- Climate impacts on human health and agriculture
- Heatwaves and changes in rainfall regimes
- Climate change vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation
- Extreme climate events effects on water availability
- Extreme climate events effects on food production
- climate change impacts
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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CEMADEN, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil
Carlos A. Nobre
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Early Warning Natural Disasters, Km 40, Natl Ctr for Monitoring, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil
Jose A. Marengo
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Cemaden, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil
Wagner R. Soares
About the editors
José Antônio Marengo, has a degree in Physics and Meteorology and a Master's in Land and Water Resource Engineering from the National Agrarian University in Lima, Peru, as well as a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1991) in the USA. He did a post-doctorate at NASA-GISS and Columbia University in New York and at the Florida State University, in Florida (USA) in climate modelling. He was senior researcher of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) between 1995 and 2014. He is member of several United Nations international panels and work groups on global changes in Brazil and abroad. He has written over 250 articles, book chapters, books, technical reports and pieces for conferences. He is a senior member of the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change (PBMC), and he was Coordinating Lead Author (CLA), Lead Author (LA) and Review Editor (RE) for the reports produced by the IPCC.. He is also a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences and a CNPq 1-A researcher. He is currently senior researcher and General Coordinator of Research and Development at CEMADEN (National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Disasters), of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), where he works with extreme events and natural disaster risk reduction.
Wagner Rodrigues Soares, has a degree in Meteorology from the Pelotas Federal University. He has a Master’s in Agricultural Meteorology by the Viçosa Federal University and PhD in Meteorology by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He acted as researcher in several projects on climate change and variability like: PROBIO, CT-HIDRO, PACS-SONET, PROSUR, LBA-RACCI, LBA-ECO and SALLJEX, among others. Reviewer of journals such as the International Journal of Climatology and the Brazilian Geography Magazine. Group 1 member of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change (PBMC). He worked as a consultant of the United Nations Environment Programme in the climate modelling area. He has experience in geosciences, with emphasis on meteorology, acting mainly on the following issues: climate change, climate and extreme hydrological events, climate modelling, low-level jet and moisture transport in the lower atmosphere, impact and climate scenarios assessment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change Risks in Brazil
Editors: Carlos A. Nobre, Jose A. Marengo, Wagner R. Soares
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92881-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92880-7Published: 12 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06538-6Published: 27 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92881-4Published: 25 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 90 b/w illustrations
Topics: Earth System Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Environmental Health