Droughts: A Global Assesment

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ISBN: 9780415168335 | 0415168333
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/8/2000

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Including an extensive range of case studies covering the most drought-prone and most affected countries, the contributors examine technologies, planning methodologies and mitigation actions from recent drought experiences world-wide.

Backgrounds and Concepts
Drought as a natrual hazard
Concepts and definitions
Causes and Predictability
Prospects for the prediction of meteorological drought
The application of El Nino-Southern oscillation information to seasonal forecasts in Australia
Neville Nicholls
Predicting drought in Kenya
Prospects and challenges
The prediction of drought in the Brazilian Nordeste
Progess and prospects for the future
Prospects for predicting droughts in the United States
Predictability of drought in China
The occurrence and predictability of droughts over Southern Africa
Drought and its predictability in Ethiopia
Monitoring and Early Warning Techniques
Integrated climate monitoring for drought detection
Drought Indices
A Review
Monitoring drought using the standardized precipitation index
Monitoring the incidence of large-scale droughts in India
Global drought detection and impact assessment from space
Australian climate services for drought management
Drought monitoring for famine relief in Africa
Drought in the context of the last 1,000+ years
Some surprising implications
Drought
Pervasive impacts of a creeping phenomenon
Estimating the economic impacts of drought on agriculture
Computing drought severity and forecasting its future impact on grazing in a GIS
An assessment of the drought hazard in Morocco
The Economic dimensions of drought in Sub-Saharan Africa
Canadian Prairie drought impacts and experiences
The impacts of drought in China
Recent experiences
Drought in South Africa, with special reference to the 1980-94 period
The drought of 1991-5 in Southern Spain
Analysis, Economic repercussions and response measures
The virgin lands scheme in the former Soviet Union
Adjustment and Adaptation Strategies
Effective drought mitigation
Linking micro and macro levels
Productive water points as a means of coping with drought
Charles Batchelor
Adjustment and response strategies of local farmers in India
Adaptation to drought in Mexico
Agricultural drought managment for sustained agricultural development
'she'll be right, mate'
Coping with drought
Strategies old and new in Australia
Managing supply variability
The use of water banks in the Western United States
Drought Management
Mitigation, Preparedness and Policy
Preparing for drought
A Methodology
From state dependency to self-reliance
Agricultural drought policies and practices in New Zealand
Approaches to integrated drought risk management
Australia's national drought policy
Water supply variability and drought impact and mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa
State actions to mitigate drought
Lessons learned
Respondng to drought
Common threads from the past, visions f<$$$>
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