ABSTRACT
Water and air are essential for human life and livelihoods, as they are for other living beings. Water in excess (floods) and water in deficit (droughts) show the importance of living with different amounts of water, or else, harm can result. Significant weather phenomena are similar, leading to descriptions of living with weather. Average weather is climate, with natural climate change being an ever-present challenge and opportunity for humanity, now compounded by human-caused climate change. Both natural and anthropogenic climate change indicate limits for humanity living with climate change. Water, weather, and climate are not isolated from each other nor from other environmental phenomena, demonstrating the interplay among disaster risks, hazards, and vulnerabilities.
