Social‐Environmental Extremes: Rethinking Extraordinary Events as Outcomes of Interacting Biophysical and Social Systems
Abstract Extreme droughts, heat waves, fires, hurricanes, floods, and landslides cause the largest losses in the United States, and globally, from natural hazards linked to weather and climate. There is evidence that the frequency of such extremes is increasing, particularly for heat waves, large fi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Earth's Future |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001319 |