Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity: Management of Drought and Water Scarcity

✍ Scribed by Saeid Eslamian, Faezeh A. Eslamian

• Publisher: CRC Press : Taylor & Francis Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 799
• Series: Volume 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume includes over 30 chapters, written by experts from around the world. It examines numerous management strategies for dealing with drought and scarcity. These strategies include management approaches for different regions, such as coastal, urban, rural, and agricultural areas. It offers multiple strategies for monitoring, assessing, and forcasting drought through the use of remote sensing and GIS tools. It also presents drought mitigation management strategies, such as groundwater management, rainwater harvesting, conservations practices, and more.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Half-Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1 Drought Management: Initiatives and Objectives
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Drought Monitoring
1.3 Drought Management
1.3.1 Identification of Key Issues 1.3.2 Hazard Assessment and Environmental Management 1.3.2.1 Drought Impacts
1.3.3 Infrastructure and Risk Characterization
1.3.3.1 Learning from Extreme Events
1.4 Response to Drought: Drought Management Initiatives
1.4.1 Drought Policy 1.4.1.1 Legislative Change, Policy, and Community Engagement 1.4.1.2 Decision-Making
1.4.1.3 Maintaining Service to Customers during the Drought
1.4.1.4 Managing Drought through Relief Intervention
1.4.2 Managing Water Demand 1.4.2.1 Water Trade Proving a Valuable Tool for Communities 1.4.2.2 Effective Water Capture and Storage
1.5 Summary and Conclusions
Authors
References
Chapter 2 Impacts of Drought on Social and Agricultural Systems
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Meteorological Drought 2.1.2 Hydrological Drought 2.1.3 Agricultural Drought
2.1.4 Socioeconomic Drought
2.1.5 Desert versus Drought
2.2 Drought Management
2.3 Impacts of Droughts
2.3.1 Ecological Impacts of Droughts

✦ Subjects

Drought management;Droughts;Drought forecasting;Water-supply;Environmental impact analysis