ABSTRACT
Droughts occur in arid and semi-arid areas of the world, but also in humid areas, and can develop over short periods (flash drought) or longer periods (seasons/decades). Even though progress has been made, it remains difficult to adequately characterize, monitor, forecast and manage droughts, due to their multi-faceted nature.Usually, drought does
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Introduction
chapter |12 pages
Fostering drought research and science-policy interfacing: Achievements of the DROUGHT-R&SPI project
chapter |8 pages
Characteristics and drivers of drought in Europe—a summary of the DROUGHT-R&SPI project
chapter |8 pages
European historic droughts beyond the modern instrumental records 16th–20th centuries
part |2 pages
Assessment of past and future drought impacts
chapter |8 pages
Rainy season pattern and impacts on agriculture and water resources in Northeastern Brazil
chapter |8 pages
Ex-post evaluation of the socio-economic impacts of drought in some areas in Europe
chapter |6 pages
Multi-scalar drought and its impact on crop yield in the Republic of Moldova
chapter |8 pages
Integration of climate time series and MODIS data as an analysis tool for forest drought detection
chapter |8 pages
Comparing low moisture availability and relative crop yields on the pan-European scale using the FAO water production function
chapter |6 pages
Impact of meteorological drought on crop yield on pan-European scale, 1979–2009
chapter |6 pages
Temperature extremes, moisture deficiency and their impacts on dryland agriculture in Gujarat, India
part |2 pages
Drought identification and characterization
chapter |6 pages
Chronology of drought termination for long records in the Thames catchment
chapter |4 pages
Drought in South-Eastern Europe: Monitoring and management
chapter |6 pages
The drought indicator system in the Júcar River Basin Authority
chapter |8 pages
An approach to monitoring drought events and food security conditions
chapter |6 pages
Water scarcity cost as a drought indicator through hydroeconomic modelling—application to the Jucar River Basin
part |2 pages
Early warning systems
chapter |6 pages
IMPETUS: Improving predictions of drought for user decision-making
chapter |8 pages
Developing a framework for drought forecasting and warning: Results of the DEWFORA project
chapter |6 pages
Enhancing drought Monitoring and Early Warning by linking indicators to impacts
chapter |6 pages
Seasonal hydrologic forecasting under drought conditions in the Upper Jucar River Basin, Spain
chapter |6 pages
Climate seasonal forecast and derived indexes for droughts in Ceará, Brazil
chapter |6 pages
Use of seasonal climate predictions in the water sector—preliminary results from the EUPORIAS project
part |2 pages
Drought risk and vulnerability assessment
chapter |6 pages
An impact perspective on pan-European drought sensitivity
part |2 pages
Water management and governance under drought conditions
chapter |8 pages
Securing drinking water supply during extreme drought— learnings from South Australia
chapter |8 pages
Regional governance assessment for drought adaptation in North-West Europe: Case study results from the analysis with a Governance Assessment Tool in the DROP-project
chapter |6 pages
The debate on sustainable water management: Evidence from drought in the Jucar Basin
chapter |6 pages
Managing of the agriculture water consumption to meet the environmental flows of the Lake Urmia during the droughts
part |2 pages
Development and implementation of drought policies and plans from the local to the regional, national and international levels
chapter |8 pages
Towards policy recommendations for future drought risk reduction
chapter |6 pages
Integrated water resources management strategy to mitigate drought impacts in Mexico
chapter |8 pages
Water markets in Spain: A tool for drought mitigation
chapter |6 pages
Program of preventive and mitigation drought measures in the Rio Balsas Basin Council, Mexico
part |2 pages
Research and science interfaces with drought policies