Actions for Drought : a global assessment
Drought : a global assessment / edited by Donald A. Wilhite
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Wilhite, Donald A.
- Series
- Contents
- Vol. 1. BACKGROUND AND CONCEPTS: Drought as a natural hazard: concepts and definitions / Donald A. Wilhite -- CAUSES AND PREDICTABILITY: Prospects for the prediction of meteorological drought / C. F. Ropelewski and C. K. Folland -- The application of el nino-southern oscillation information to seasonal forecasts in Australia / Neville Nichotls and Grant Beard -- Predicting drought in Kenya: prospects and challenges / L. A. Ogallo -- The prediction of drought in the Brazilian nordeste: progress and prospects for the future / Paulo Nobre and Iracema P. A. Cavalcanti -- Prospects for predicting droughts in the United States / Randall M. Dole -- Predictability of drought in China / Wang Shaowu, Ye Jinlan, and Qjan Weihong -- The occurrence and predictability of droughts over southern Africa / S. J. Mason and P. D. Tyson -- Drought and its predictability in Ethiopia / Tffgaye Tadesse -- MONITORING AND EARLY WARNING TECHNIQUES: Integrated climate monitoring for drought detection / Kelly T. Redmond -- Drought indices: a review / Richard R. Heim, Jr -- Monitoring drought using the standardized precipitation index / Michael Hayes, Mark Svoboda, and Donald A. Wilhite -- Monitoring the incidence of large-scale droughts in India / H. P. Das -- Global drought detection and impact assessment from space / Felix Kogan -- Australian climate services for drought management / W. R. Kininmonth et al. -- Drought monitoring for famine relief in Africa / J.A. Dyer -- Drought in the context of the last 1,000+ years: some surprising implications / Lisa J. Graumlich and Mrill Ingram -- IMPACTS AND ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES: Drought: pervasive impacts of a creeping phenomenon / Donald A. Wilhite and Olga Vanyarkho -- Estimating the economic impacts of drought on agriculture / William Easterling and Robert Mendelsohn -- Computing drought severity and forecasting its future impact on grazing in a GIS / J. M. de Jager, M. D. Howard, and H. J. Fouche -- An assessment of the drought hazard in Morocco / Will D. Swearingen and Abdellatif Bencherifa -- The economic dimensions of drought in sub-Saharan Africa / Charlotte Benson and Edward Clay -- Canadian prairie drought impacts and experiences / E.E. Wheaton -- The impacts of drought in China: recent experiences / Kerang Li, Yufeng Chen, and Chaoying Huang -- Drought in South Africa, with special reference to the 1980-94 period / Coleen Vogel, Mike Laing, and Karl Monnik -- The drought of 1991-5 in southern Spain: analysis, economic repercussions, and response measures / C. Peral Garcia, A. Mestre Barcelo, and J. L. Garcia Merayo -- the virgin lands scheme in the former Soviet Union / Igor Zonn, Michael H. Glantz, and Alvin Rubinstein. and Vol. 2. ADJUSTMENT AND ADAPTATION STRATEGIES: Effective drought mitigation: linking micro and macro levels / Susanna Davies -- Productive water points as a means of coping with drought / Charles Batchelor, Chris Lovell, and Isiah Mharapara -- Response strategies of local farmers in India / A.R. Subbiah -- Adaptation to drought in Mexico / Diana M. Liverman -- Agricultural drought management for sustained aglucultural development / A.S.R.A.S. Sastri -- 'She'll be right, mate'. Coping with drought: strategies old and new in Australia / R. L. Heathcote -- Managing supply variability: the use of water banks in the western United States / Kathleen A. Miller -- DROUGHT MANAGEMENT: MITIGATION, PREPAREDNESS, AND POLICY: Prepalung for drought: a methodology / Donald A. Wilhite -- From state dependency to self-reliance: agricultural drought policies and practices in New Zealand / Heather J.K. Haylock and Neil J. Ericksen -- Approaches to integrated drought risk management: Australia's national drought policy / B. O'Meagher, M. Stafford Smith, and D. H. White -- Water supply variarility and drought impact and mitigation in sub Saharan Africa / Ariel Dinar and Andrew Keck -- State actions to mitigate drought: lessons learnedv / Donald A. Wilhite -- Responding to drought: common threads from the past, visions for the future / Donald A. Wilhite -- Drought risk management in southern Africa: developing institutions to transform 'belated disaster response' into 'informed preparedness' / Jim Williams -- Drought hazards in Israel and Jordan: policy recommendations for disaster mitigation / Hendrik J. Bruins -- Drought preparedness and mitigation for public water supplies / Benedykt Dziegielewski -- An overview of the activities of UNSO in drought preparedness and mitigation / Tijan Jallow -- LINKING DROUGHT TO OTHER GLOBAL ISSUES: Drought dlscourse and vulnerability / Thomas E. Downing and Karen Bakker -- Drought and desertification: exploring the linkages / H.E. Dregne -- Drought and water resources / John C. Rodda -- Drought, variarility, and climate change in the Twenty-First century / D. Rind -- Drought, the famine process, and the phasing of interventions / John Osgood Field -- Drought follows the plough: a cautionary note / Michael H. Glantz -- CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES: Reducing societal vulnerability to drought: future challenges / Donald A. Wilhite.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0415168333 (2 v. set)
0415168341 (v. 1)
0415214181 (v. 2) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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