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The first volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on understanding drought, causes, and the assessment of drought impacts. It explains different types of drought: agricultural, meteorological, hydrological, and socioeconomic droughts, their indices and the impact of climate change on drought. The volume also examines spatiotemporal analysis of drought, variability and patterns, assessment, and drought evaluation. With numerous case studies from India, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, US, and other countries, this volume serves as a valuable resource for all readers who want to advance their knowledge on drought and risk management.
Features:
Provides a global perspective on drought prediction and management and a synthesis of the recent state of knowledge.
Covers a wide range of topics from essential concepts and advanced techniques for forecasting and modeling drought to societal impacts, consequences, and planning.
Presents numerous case studies with different management approaches from different regions and countries.
Addresses how climate change impacts drought, the increasing challenges associated with managing drought, decision making, and policy implications.
Includes contributions from hundreds of experts around the world.
Professionals, researchers, academics, and postgraduate students with knowledge in environmental sciences, ecology, agriculture, forestry, hydrology, water resources engineering, and earth sciences, as well as those interested in how climate change impacts drought management, will gain new insights from the experts featured in this two-volume handbook.
Contents
1. Understanding Drought: definitions, causes, assessments, forecasts, and management 2. Drought concepts, its characterization and indicators 3. Spatial Assessment of Meteorological and Agricultural Drought in Northern India 4. Assessment of meteorological drought characteristics in Brazil 5. Drought in Rio de Janeiro State, Southeast Brazil 6. The Mexican drought (2011): an insight into the 29-month drought in Aguascalientes 7. Investigating the relationship between the temporal distribution of precipitation and flow shortness volume over Lake Urmia Basin, Iran 8. Long-Term Drought Study in Algeria based on Meteorological Data 9. Severe droughts over India 10. Comparison of Bhalme-Mooley Drought Index with Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index: The Case of Okavango Delta, Botswana 11. Analysis of drought using a modified version of the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index 12. Evaluation of an Evapotranspiration Deficit-based Drought Index and its Impacts on Carbon Productivity in the Levant and Iraq 13. Analysis of meteorological drought using Joint Deficit Index based on downscaled precipitation data 14. Comparability Analyses of three Meteorological Drought Indices in Turkey 15. Trend identification in multi-scalar SPI over Uttarakhand, India 16. Temporal Trends of Aridity Index under Subtropical Highland Climate in Northeast India 17. Observed trends in annual aridity index in North-central Mexico 18. Hydrological Drought Index based on Streamflow Regime 19. Meteorological drought assessment in mountainous regions based on outputs of general circulation models 20. Climate Change Impact on Groundwater Droughts: Case study Groundwater-dependent Irrigation System 21. Impact of Climate Change on Occurrence and Severity of Drought 22. Climate Change effect on Crop Water Stress: case study of Syria 23. Biodiversity and Functions of Alluvial System Facing Severe Droughts Induced by Global Change 24. Climate change impacts on meteorological and hydrological droughts and their hazard propagations in China 25. Climate Change may raise Physiology Disorders on the Grape (Vitis Vinifera l) and Pecan (Carya Illinoinensis) in the Sonoran Desert, Mexico 26. Scientific evidence supporting the progression of climate change-induced drought from the history 27. Climate Change, Drought and Water Resources 28. Climate Change and Gender Drudgery in Rice Based Mono-cropping System of Meghalaya State in North Eastern Hill Region of India: Impact Evaluation
