Research Catalog

Title

The uncertainty business : risks and opportunities in weather and climate / W.J. Maunder ; with a foreword by John R. Mather.

Author

Maunder, W. J. (William John), 1932-

Publication

London : Methuen, 1986.

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Details

Description

xxviii, 420 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subject

• Economic development
• Human beings > Influence of climate
• Climatology > Social aspects
• Weather forecasting > Social aspects
• Planning
• economic development
• Influence climatique
• Conséquences économiques
• Weather forecasting > Social aspects
• Planning
• Climatology > Social aspects
• Economic development
• Klimaänderung
• Wettervorhersage
• Wirtschaft
• Economisch gedrag
• Weer
• Klimaat
• Météorologie > Économie politique
• Climatologie > Économie politique
• Climatologie

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [361]-403.

Contents

• THE ATMOSPHERE AS AN ELITE RESOURCE: Understanding the atmospheric resource -- Changing directions in climatology -- Weather and climate: Is there a difference? -- The real economic climate -- Weather and climate: A serious game -- II THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: Human responses to the atmospheric resource -- Specific national responses: The role of the public, education, and private sectors -- The international scene -- Monitoring and understanding the weather/climate resource -- EVENTS AND INFORMATION: Data and information -- Weather and climate information -- Weather forecasts -- The benefits and costs of weather and climate information -- Food commodities, weather information, and politics -- The commodities market -- Communicating weather and climate information -- THE WEATHER-ECONOMIC MIX: The spectrum of weather and climate variations -- The importance of weather and climate variations -- Climate effect studies -- The value of weather and climate to an area -- Responses to weather and climate variations -- Climate sensitivity -- The impact or climate -- Climatic sotutions to problems -- Measuring the costs of the weather and the climate -- National sensitivity to weather and climate events -- National income and product accounts: A New Zealand example -- Climate sensitivity - the link with political reality --
• ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE: Economic and weather/climate data sources -- Commodity-weighted weather indices: The why, what and how -- National commodity-weighted weather and climate indices -- Climate productivity indices: National and international -- THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS: Droughts -- Transport/weather relationships -- Retail trade and weather relationships -- Manufacturing and weather relationships -- Construction and weather relationships -- Road construction and weather relationships -- Electric power and weather relationships -- Pastoral production and weather relationships -- WEATHER-AND CLIMATE-BASED FORECASTS OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES: The assessment role -- Explanatory and empirical models -- Weather- and climate-based forecasts of agricultural production -- Weather- and climate-based forecasts of business activity indicators -- FORTHCOMING CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES: Weather and climate: The challenge of operational decision-making -- Weather and climate: The information opportunity -- Climate change and political realities -- Political and strategic econoclimatology -- Weather and climate modification -- The weather administrator of the future -- The challenge ahead.

ISBN

• 0416361102
• 9780416361100
• 0416361005
• 9780416361001

LCCN

86016266

OCLC

• ocm59203461
• 59203461
• SCSB-1180864

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library