Integrated Drought Management, Volume 1 : Assessment and Spatial Analyses in Changing Climate (Paperback)

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