Estimating damages from climate-related natural disasters for the Caribbean at 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming above preindustrial levels

This paper examines historical and future changes in normalised damages resulting from climate-related natural disasters for the Caribbean. Annualised damages of USD824 million are shown to be non-stationary over the historical period 1964 to 2013. Perturbations of (i) sea surface temperatures (SST)...

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Volume:	18
Main Author:	Burgess, Christopher Patrick Taylor, Michael A Spencer, Nekeisha Jones, Jhordanne Stephenson, Tannecia S
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2018 Springer
published in:	Regional environmental change Vol. 18; no. 8; pp. 2297 - 2312
Editor:	Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich Thomas, Adelle Kumar, Mahendra
ORCID:	0000-0002-5547-0558
Data of publication:	20181200
ISSN:	1436-3798 1436-378X
EISSN:	1436-378X
Discipline:	Oceanography Environmental Sciences
Subjects:	Nature Conservation Climate Change Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts Environment Oceanography Geography, general Caribbean Regional/Spatial Science Damages Neural networks Natural disaster damage Analysis Environmental aspects Air pollution Distribution (Probability theory) Climate models Global warming Natural disasters
Online Access:	Fulltext
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