{"product_id":"floods-droughts-and-climate-change-michael-collier-9780816522507","title":"Floods, Droughts, and Climate Change","description":"\u003cb\u003eNo one in America would deny\u003c\/b\u003e that the weather has changed drastically in our lifetime. We read about El Niño and La Niña, but how many of us really understand the big picture beyond our own front windows or even the headlines on the Weather Channel? Hydrologists and climatologists have long been aware of the role of regional climate in predicting floods and understanding droughts. But with our growing sense of a variable climate, it is important to reassess these natural disasters not as isolated events but as related phenomena. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book shows that floods and droughts don't happen by accident but are the products of patterns of wind, temperature, and precipitation that produce meteorologic extremes. It introduces the mechanics of global weather, puts these processes into the longer-term framework of climate, and then explores the evolution of climatic patterns through time to show that floods and droughts, once considered isolated \"acts of God,\" are often related events driven by the same forces that shape the entire atmosphere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Michael Collier and Robert Webb offer a fresh, insightful look at what we know about floods, droughts, and climate variability--and their impact on people--in an easy-to-read text, with dramatic photos, that assumes no previous understanding of climate processes. They emphasize natural, long-term mechanisms of climate change, explaining how floods and droughts relate to climate variability over years and decades. They also show the human side of some of the most destructive weather disasters in history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Collier and Webb ably demonstrate, \"climate\" may not be the smooth continuum of meteorologic possibilities we supposed but rather the sum of multiple processes operating both regionally and globally on different time scales. Amid the highly politicized discussion of our changing environment, \u003ci\u003eFloods, Droughts, and Climate Change\u003c\/i\u003e offers a straightforward scientific account of weather crises that can help students and general readers better understand the causes of climate variability and the consequences for their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Collier,Robert H. Webb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816522502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816522507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.82w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2002 pg. 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2002 pg. 553\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2003 pg. 48 - Outstanding","brand":"Michael Collier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447789302015,"sku":"9780816522507","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe154dbf-6694-452a-b258-d2e16c4c5d8e.jpg?v=1777234825","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/floods-droughts-and-climate-change-michael-collier-9780816522507","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}