Planning For Drought: Toward A Reduction Of Societal Vulnerability [Hardcover]

Droughts and their management are a serious challenge to water resource professionals. While droughts predominate in arid regions, their frequency and severity in more temperate regions with more abundant rainfall have been on the rise. Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources provides an essential collection of planning and management.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 OverviewSouth Australian Study --l“+