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Sandford, Robert W.
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Floods -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Floods -- Alberta -- Calgary.
Flood forecasting -- Canada.
Climatic changes -- Canada.
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Sandford, Robert W.
Floods -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Floods -- Alberta -- Calgary.
Flood forecasting -- Canada.
Climatic changes -- Canada.
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Flood forecast : climate risk and resiliency in Canada / Robert William Sandford and
Kerry
Freek
.
by
Sandford, Robert W.
Rocky Mountain Books, 2014.
Call #:
551.489 S217f
Subjects
Floods -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Floods -- Alberta -- Calgary.
Flood forecasting -- Canada.
Climatic changes -- Canada.
Series
Manifesto series.
ISBN:
9781771600040 (bound)
1771600047 (bound)
Description:
xi, 139 p. ; 19 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"Hydro-climatic change is no longer an abstract or theoretical concept if you have been directly affected by the increase in the duration and intensity of extreme weather. In this new RMB manifesto, two of Canada's most respected water experts explain what is happening to the hydrological cycle by way of the very personal impacts that disastrous flooding had on them, their colleagues, neighbours, friends and family. Detailing events as the rain started to fall and the water began to rise,
Kerry
Freek
provides an extraordinary narrative of the flooding that took place in downtown Toronto in July of 2013, while Robert Sandford provides a minute by minute account of what happened in June of 2013 throughout southern Alberta. The exceptional flooding detailed in this startling new book is nothing compared to what the atmosphere is capable of delivering in the future. Extreme weather events are making it clear that it's time to take climate change even more seriously than previously thought and that citizens, corporations and governments around the world must prepare for what many observers are now calling "the new normal" when it comes to major meteorological events."--From publisher.
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Freek
,
Kerry
.
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