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Weather and climate resilience : effective preparedness through national meteorological and hydrological services, Paperback / softback Book

Weather and climate resilience : effective preparedness through national meteorological and hydrological services Paperback / softback

Part of the Directions in development series

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The importance of weather, climate, and water information is rising because of the need to minimise growing economic losses, serve more elaborate societal needs, and help countries adapt to climate change.

Weather and Climate Resilience highlights recent World Bank experience and offers guidance on good practices that will help modernisation efforts.

Sustainable development hinges on the ability to copy with natural hazards and avoid the ensuing disasters that often befall a poorly prepared society.

National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) play a vital role as a country's official source of warnings for weather hazards.

Together with disasters managers, they play a critical part in reducing the adverse impact of hydrometeorological threats.

In many developing countries, however, underinvestment in infrastructure and operations of NMHSs has left them with limited capacity to inform and warn.

These countries are often disproportionately vulnerable to hydrometeorological hazards with many people living in areas exposed to floods, storm surges, extreme temperatures, drought and other dangers.

Weather and Climate Resilience underscores the urgent need to strengthen NMHSs, especially in developing countries, and provides cost-benefit estimates of the return that countries can hope to achieve.

It also offers a recommended approach that has been tested and implemented in Europe, Central and South Asia, and other countries.

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