Planning For Drought: Toward A Reduction Of Societal Vulnerability

by Donald Wilhite, William Easterling, Deborah A. Wood, Eugene Rasmusson

Overview

Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources delineates how to reduce drought effects through pro-active vision, good management, and conjunctive use of water sources

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367298449
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2021
Pages:	597
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joaquin Andreu Alvarez, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

Table of Contents

Foreword — Preface — Background — Drought and Desiccation: Twin Hazards of a Variable Climate — Understanding the Drought Phenomenon: The Role of Definitions — Prediction — Global Prospects for the Prediction of Drought: A Meteorological Perspective — The Droughts of Northeast Brazil and Their Prediction — Prospects for Drought Prediction in Australia and Indonesia — Forecasting Drought Probabilistically — Drought Prediction: A Hydrological Perspective — Monitoring and Early Warning — Surface Weather Monitoring and the Development of Drought and Other Climate Information Delivery Systems — Agroclimatic Monitoring During the Growing Season in Semiarid Regions of Africa — Monitoring Drought in Australia — Satellite Remote Sensing of Drought Conditions — An Operational Early Warning Agricultural Weather System — Impact Assessment — Climate Impact Assessment: A Review of Some Approaches — Assessing Drought Impacts and Adjustments in Agriculture and Water Resource Systems — Climate Impact Assessment in Central and Eastern Kenya: Notes on Methodology — International Drought Early Warning Program of NOAA/NESDIS/AISC — Food Shortages Assessment and Prediction: Methods of the Early Warning System of Ethiopia — Would Better Information from an Early Warning System Improve African Food Security? — Special Papers — Drought and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa — Drought and Climate Change: For Better or Worse? — Adaptation and Adjustment — Adaptation and Adjustments in Drought-Prone Areas: Research Directions — Adaptation and Adjustments in Drought-Prone Areas: an Overview—South Australian Study — Technological and Sociopolitical Adaptation and Adjustment to Drought: The Indian Experience — Perceptions of Drought in the Ogallala Aquifer Region of the Western U.S. Great Plains — Planning and Response by Government — The Role of Government in Planning for Drought: Where Do We Go from Here? — Drought Planning and Response: Botswana Experience — Drought Management in India: Steps Toward Eliminating Famines — Drought in Northeast Brazil: Impact and Government Response — Interaction between Scientist and Layman in the Perception and Assessment of Drought: South Africa — The Role of Donor Organizations in Responding to Drought and Famine — Drought and Agricultural Development — The Role of the Media in Identifying and Publicizing Drought — Drought Crisis Management: The Case of Ethiopia — Summary Address — The Symposium in Perspective: Summary Address — Workshop Summary — Introduction — Task Group Reports — Drought Research Priorities — Drought Policy: Toward a Plan of Action — Workshop Participants — Workshop Position Statement