Extreme events and climate change: A multidisciplinary approach

Abstract This first chapter of the book gives an overview of its content. After a brief introduction, the chapter discusses the three sections' content that makes this book. Section one reports on temperatures and severe convective storms; however, section two of the book comprises two chapters on hydrological responses. These two chapters provide in-depth analyses of the present status and future outlook of the respective topics. The last section of the book deals with mitigation and adaptation measures for climate change. Some of its chapters deal with analyzing the potential impacts of climate change and extreme events on ecosystem responses, lifeline infrastructures, green infrastructure, and sea-level rise. The last two chapters of the book give an overview of governance and climate change policies and extreme events.