The key to multiple testing is to respect the dependencies between the marginal hypotheses tests. Any dependency structure can be modeled by so-called copula functions. This makes copulas an interesting tool in multiple testing. In particular, it is possible to explicitly utilize the dependency...

“Climate change adaptation”, “building resilience” and “vulnerability and risk reduction” are noble words, but do we really know what is meant by these terms and how to assess their respective progress? This book seeks to address these questions. The world has recently experienced...