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Social‐Environmental Extremes: Rethinking Extraordinary Events as Outcomes of Interacting Biophysical and Social Systems
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2020
Source: Earth's Future, 8(7)
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Journal Title:Earth's Future
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Description:Extreme droughts, heat waves, fires, hurricanes, floods, and landslides cause the largest losses in the United States, and globally, from natural hazards linked to weather and climate. There is evidence that the frequency of such extremes is increasing, particularly for heat waves, large fires, and intense precipitation, making better understanding of the probability and consequences of these events imperative. Further, these events are not isolated, but rather interact with each other and with other social and biophysical drivers and conditions, to amplify impacts. Less is known about the nature and strength of theseinteractions. Natural and social science sub fields frame extreme events with different de finitions and analytical approaches, often neglecting interactions and the subsequent novel extremes that can arise. Here
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Source:Earth's Future, 8(7)
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ISSN:2328-4277;2328-4277;
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC
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