Weathering The Global Storm
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Weathering The Global Storm
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Author : International Monetary Fund
language : en
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Release Date : 2010-12-01
Weathering The Global Storm written by International Monetary Fund and has been published by International Monetary Fund this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Business & Economics categories.
This paper highlights that central banks from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru (the LA5 countries) reaped the benefits of what they sowed in successfully weathering the global crisis. The adoption of far-reaching institutional, policy, and operational reforms during the last two decades enabled central banks to build credibility about their commitment with the objective of price stability. Thus, when the 2007 - 08 supply shock and the financial crisis hit the world, the LA5 central banks reacted swiftly and effectively based on a flexible policy framework and with the support of strong macroeconomic and financial foundations. Building on the experience of the LA5 central banks and complementing with recommendations from the IMF’s technical advice, the paper provides several suggestions for countries seeking to strengthen the effectiveness of monetary policy.
Weathering The Global Storm Yet Rising Costs And Labour Shortages May Dampen Domestic Growth
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Author : Peter Havlik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Weathering The Global Storm Yet Rising Costs And Labour Shortages May Dampen Domestic Growth written by Peter Havlik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Asia categories.
Storm Surge
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Author : Adam Sobel
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-10-14
Storm Surge written by Adam Sobel and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-14 with Science categories.
Was Sandy a freak of nature, or the new normal? On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy reached the shores of the northeastern United States to become one of the most destructive storms in history. But was Sandy a freak event, or should we have been better prepared for it? Was it a harbinger of things to come as the climate warms? In this fascinating and accessible work of popular science, atmospheric scientist and Columbia University professor Adam Sobel addresses these questions, combining his deep knowledge of the climate with his firsthand experience of the event itself. Sobel explains the remarkable atmospheric conditions that gave birth to Sandy and determined its path. He gives us insight into the science that led to the accurate forecasts of the storm from genesis to landfall, as well as an understanding of why our meteorological vocabulary failed our leaders in warning us about this unprecedented weather system—part hurricane, part winter-type nor'easter, fully deserving of the title "Superstorm." Storm Surge brings together the melting glaciers, the warming oceans, and a broad historical perspective to explain how our changing climate and developing coastlines are making New York and other cities more vulnerable. Engaging, informative, and timely, Sobel's book provokes us to think differently about how we can better prepare for the storms in our future.
Global Weirdness
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Author : Climate Central
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-07-24
Global Weirdness written by Climate Central and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-24 with Science categories.
Sixty easty-to-read essays that enlarge our understanding of how climate change affects our daily lives, and arms us with the incontrovertible facts we need to make informed decisions about the future of the planet, and of humankind. “A breath of fresh air: just the facts, efficient and easy to understand.” —Scientific American Global Weirdness summarizes everything we know about the science of climate change, explains what is likely to happen to the climate in the future, and lays out, in practical terms, what we can do to avoid further shifts. Climate Central tackles basic questions such as: -Is climate ever “normal”? -Why and how do fossil-fuel burning and other human practices produce greenhouse gases? -What natural forces have caused climate change in the past? -What risks does climate change pose for human health? -What accounts for the diminishment of mountain glaciers and small ice caps around the world since 1850? -What are the economic costs and benefits of reducing carbon emissions?
Angry Weather
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Author : Friederike Otto
language : en
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
Release Date : 2020-09-12
Angry Weather written by Friederike Otto and has been published by Greystone Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-12 with Science categories.
From leading climate scientist Dr. Friederike Otto, this gripping book reveals the revolutionary science that definitively links extreme weather events—including deadly heat waves, forest fires, floods, and hurricanes—to climate change. “Meet the forensic scientists of climate change; if you like CSI, you’ll be equally enthralled with the skill and speed these folks exhibit. But the stakes are infinitely higher!” —Bill McKibben, author of Falter and The End of Nature Tied with Hurricane Katrina as the costliest cyclone on record, Hurricane Harvey caused catastrophic flooding and over a hundred deaths in 2017. Angry Weather tells the compelling, day-by-day story of the World Weather Attribution unit—a team of scientists that studies extreme weather events while they’re happening—and their race to track the connection between the hurricane and climate change. As the hurricane unfolds, Otto reveals how attribution science works in real time, and determines that Harvey’s terrifying floods were three times more likely to occur due to human-induced climate change. At the forefront of cutting-edge climate science, Friederike Otto uncovers how the new ability to determine climate change’s role in extreme weather events can dramatically transform how we view the climate crisis: from how it will affect those of us who are most vulnerable, to the corporations and governments that may find themselves held accountable in the courts. The research laid out in Angry Weather will have profound impacts, both today and for the future of humankind. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
Climate And Literature
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Author : Adeline Johns-Putra
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Climate And Literature written by Adeline Johns-Putra and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Leading scholars examine the history of climate and literature. Essays analyse this history in terms of the contrasts between literary and climatological time, and between literal and literary atmosphere, before addressing textual representations of climate in seasons poetry, classical Greek literature, medieval Icelandic and Greenlandic sagas, and Shakespearean theatre. Beyond this, the effect of Enlightenment understandings of climate on literature are explored in Romantic poetry, North American settler literature, the novels of empire, Victorian and modernist fiction, science fiction, and Nordic noir or crime fiction. Finally, the volume addresses recent literary framings of climate in the Anthropocene, charting the rise of the climate change novel, the spectre of extinction in the contemporary cultural imagination, and the relationship between climate criticism and nuclear criticism. Together, the essays in this volume outline the discursive dimensions of climate. Climate is as old as human civilisation, as old as all attempts to apprehend and describe patterns in the weather. Because climate is weather documented, it necessarily possesses an intimate relationship with language, and through language, to literature. This volume challenges the idea that climate belongs to the realm of science and is separate from literature and the realm of the imagination.
China
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Author : World Bank
language : en
Publisher: Poverty Reduction and Economic
Release Date : 1999
China written by World Bank and has been published by Poverty Reduction and Economic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.
This report builds on the framework laid out in the 1997 Country Economic Memorandum, "China 2020: Development Challenges in the New Century, " and its companion reports, which remain largely valid. This report focuses on the near term. The difficulty of dealing with China's main macroeconomic challenge, weakened domestic demand, has been compounded by the Asia crisis and the global economic slowdown. These challenges come at a critical juncture in China's structural reform program. Unemployment and demand for social protection has increased, and corporate debt pressures are building, in line with the transition to a more market-based economy. However, the country's large and partly insulated domestic economy has inoculated it to some degree against contagion from its less fortunate neighbors. Having weathered the storm so far, China can learn lessons from other countries that have experienced difficulties and, hence, mitigate against the risk of a crisis. The major policy issue for China is how to respond to near-term growth pressures in ways that reinforce structural reform and economic development. Policymakers have to focus on pro-growth reforms that support the development of the labor-absorbing service sector. Also, enterprise restructuring and corporate governance strengthening must remain high priorities. Finally, China needs to support structural measures that increase household demand by raising rural incomes and supporting safety net programs.
Extreme Weather And Global Media
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Author : Julia Leyda
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-05
Extreme Weather And Global Media written by Julia Leyda and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-05 with Social Science categories.
In the two decades bracketing the turn of the millennium, large-scale weather disasters have been inevitably constructed as media events. As such, they challenge the meaning of concepts such as identity and citizenship for both locally affected populations and widespread spectator communities. This timely collection pinpoints the features of an often overlooked yet rapidly expanding category of global media and analyzes both its forms and functions. Specifically, contributors argue that the intense promotion and consumption of 'extreme weather' events takes up the slack for the public conversations society is not having about the environment, and the feeling of powerlessness that accompanies the realization that anthropogenic climate change has now reached a point of no return. Incorporating a range of case studies of extreme weather mediation in India, the UK, Germany, Sweden, the US, and Japan, and exploring recent and ongoing disasters such as Superstorm Sandy, the Fukushima nuclear crisis, flooding in Germany, and heat waves in the UK, Extreme Weather and Global Media generates valuable inquiry into the representational and social characteristics of the new culture of extreme weather.
Extreme Weather
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Author : Tom Streissguth
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2010-11-09
Extreme Weather written by Tom Streissguth and has been published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-09 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Author Tom Streissguth provides an enthralling look into extreme weather. He examines issues from a variety of expert perspectives, highlighting key future challenges, and addressing the pros and cons of potential solutions. Readers will explore the relationship between global climate change and extreme weather, including air and water chemistry, solar radiation, hurricanes, and tropical cyclones, and heat waves. They will learn about other potential future warming and drought. They will examine the experience and impact from the Dust Bowl of the 1930s to the current water crisis in California.
Weathering The Storm
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Author : Tracy W. Mehr-Muska
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-04-17
Weathering The Storm written by Tracy W. Mehr-Muska and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-17 with Self-Help categories.
Resilience enables us not only to survive adversity, but to be transformed by it. This book offers simple and proven strategies to develop resilience that will be of enormous benefit to anyone who is yearning to feel more peaceful and prepared. Coast Guard veteran, interfaith chaplain, and pastor Tracy Mehr-Muska shares the stories of her own struggles with self-esteem, sexual assault, and miscarriage that inspired her to research resilience and to enthusiastically reach this conclusion: resilience is not something that is inborn, but instead is a set of characteristics we can cultivate. Mehr-Muska brings these characteristics to life using inspirational secular and multifaith stories, as well as compelling scientific evidence. She ties each chapter together with an uplifting story of a personal friend that bravely and gracefully overcame obstacles and embodies each of these essential characteristics. Weathering the Storm also poses insightful questions for reflection and offers concrete strategies for implementation that can be used individually or in group contexts such as faith communities, families, and therapeutic relationships. Just as we practice fire drills before a fire happens, this book will help us be better equipped for the eventual storms of life so we can live with greater peace and preparedness.