Drought: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

✍ Scribed by Ben Cook

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 227
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environmental and sustainability studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
ONE. Introduction to the Hydrologic Cycle and Drought
TWO. Global Hydroclimatology
THREE. Drought in the Climate System
FOUR. Drought and Hydroclimate in the Holocene
FIVE. Climate Change and Drought
SIX. Case Studies: The Dust Bowl and Sahel Droughts
SEVEN. Land Degradation and Desertification
EIGHT. Groundwater and Irrigation
Glossary
References
Index

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