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Today the world is facing a greater water crisis than ever. Droughts of lesser magnitude are resulting in greater impact. Even in years with normal precipitation, water shortages have become widespread in both developing and developed nations, in humid as well as arid climates. When faced with severe drought, governments become eager to act. Unfortunately, this eagerness usually wanes when precipitation returns to normal.

Drought and Water Crises: Science, Technology, and Management Issues explains the complexities of drought and the role of science, technology, and management in resolving many of the issues associated with the world's expanding water crises.

Contributors discuss a broad range of topics in attempting to answer these most pressing questions:

How can we can improve planning tools and make mitigation tools more readily available and adaptable?

How can we promote widespread adoption of new water-conserving technologies and encourage their use during non-drought periods?

How can seasonal forecasts and early warning systems be made more reliable and expressed in ways to better meet the needs of end users?

How can the drought-related policy experiences of some countries be systematically utilized to benefit others?

Drought and Water Crises collates considerable information from diverse disciplines with the goal of reducing societal vulnerability to drought. Featuring case studies and stressing new technologies, the book seeks to encourage nations to adopt a more risk-based, proactive policy for water and drought management. ... Read more

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The third volume of Drought and Man contains case studies used in the long in-depth study set up by IFIAS and the Aspen Institute following the Sahel drought. They consider areas in Latin America, particularly northeast Brazil, the case of Tanzania, and discuss colonial disjunction in Sahelian countries. The presentation of each chapter has been written with the purpose of introducing the subject within its proper context and, at the same time, showing how each study confirms the structural 'crisis' explained in the project. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The effects of global warming on the Indian subcontinent vary from the submergence of low-lying islands and coastal lands to the melting of glaciers in the Indian Himalayas, threatening the volumetric flow rate of many of the most important rivers of India and South Asia. In India, such effects are projected to impact millions of lives. As a result of ongoing climate change, the climate of India has become increasingly volatile over the past several decades; this trend is expected to continue. Elevated carbon dioxide emissions contributed to the greenhouse effect, causing warmer weather that lasted long after the atmospheric shroud of dust and aerosols had cleared. Further climatic changes 20 million years ago, long after India had crashed into the Laurasian landmass, were severe enough to cause the extinction of many endemic Indian forms. The formation of the Himalayas resulted in blockage of frigid Central Asian air, preventing it from reaching India; this made its climate significantly warmer and more tropical in character than it would otherwise have been. Several effects of global warming, including steady sea level rise, increased cyclonic activity, and changes in ambient temperature and precipitation patterns, have affected or are projected to affect India. Ongoing sea level rises have submerged several low-lying islands in the Sundarbans, displacing thousands of people. Temperature rises on the Tibetan Plateau, which are causing Himalayan glaciers to retreat. Increased landslides and flooding are projected to have an impact upon states such as Assam. Ecological disasters, such as a 1998 coral bleaching event that killed off more than 70% of corals in the reef ecosystems off Lakshadweep and the Andamans, and was brought on by elevate... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10865637 ... Read more

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Drought is one of the major natural hazards, resulting insignificant economic, social, and environmental costs. In Europe,water shortage is an important problem in many regions. However,despite the increasing awareness of this hazard, there is no Europeandrought policy and institutional frameworks to cope with droughtsituations are only weakly developed. This book is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the droughtproblem in Europe and to discussing policy and management options tomitigate its impacts. It covers aspects from the detection of waterstress to the planning of mitigation strategies. The contributions arewritten by recognised experts in their field and represent a uniquecollection of papers on the topic. Audience: The book will be of benefit to scientists, managers,and politicians involved in problems related to water management, riskassessment, and spatial planning. Students in Earth Sciences,especially in geography, climatology, hydrology, and agriculture, willfind useful material in this collection of papers. ... Read more

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What causes droughts? How can people and animals survive droughts? Can droughts be prevented? This book uses case studies of recent droughts in Australia, the United States, and Ethiopia to answer these questions.

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on July 6, 1992. The length of the article is 1103 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: States in the Pacific Northwest face a particularly high fire risk during 1992, caused by water shortages and a record drought. Insurance carriers are therefore making special efforts to inform their policyholders of the risk and get them to cooperate in safety measures. Safeco Insurance Co agents are urging their clients to review policies for coverage and draw up personal possession lists that can be kept in a fire-safe place. A brochure on fire prevention will be sent out with premium renewal notices.

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Title: Pacific drought intensifies fire risks. (Pacific Northwest) (Supplement: California & The Western States)
Author: Garry Chandler
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 6, 1992
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n27Page: pC4(2)

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We are now in the "Age of Environmental Enlightenment" and global warming is seen as a major threat to the well-being of the world's communities. Today many researchers speculate that with global warming of the atmosphere there will be an increase in drought-related crop failures in areas already subject to drought. They contend that dry areas will get drier and wet areas wetter. Yet observations show that people are moving into regions that are relatively less fruitful with respect to agriculture productivity than the lands from which they emigrated. This book challenges the view that future droughts will be caused by climate change as opposed to human activities and demographic change. The author predicts future problems in these fragile environments, whether or not global climate changes occur.This book will intrigue researchers in environmental biology, environmental sciences, popular science, and agriculture, as well as policy makers and students. ... Read more

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Chapters: Drought in Australia, Federation Drought, 1911-1916 Australian Drought, 1979-1983 Eastern Australian Drought, 2000s Australian Drought. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Drought in Australia is defined as rainfall over a three month period being in the lowest decile of what has been recorded for that region in the past. This definition takes into account that drought is a relative term and rainfall deficiencies need to be compared to typical rainfall patterns including seasonal variations. Specifically drought in Australia is defined in relation to a rainfall deficiency of pastoral leases and is determined by decile analysis applied to a certain area. Historical climatic records are now sufficiently reliable to profile climate variability taking into account expectations for regions. State Governments are responsible for declaring a region drought affected and the declaration will take into account factors other than rainfall. Drought-affected fields in the Victorian countryside Since 1860, when adequate meteorological recording commenced, the most severe droughts have occurred commonly at intervals of 11 to 14 years. Major droughts that were recorded later in the 19th century include: The little data available indicates that this drought period was rather severe in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. During the severe, Australia wide, 1902 Federation Drought the total sheep population dropped to fewer than 54,000,000 from a total of 106,000,000 sheep in 1891 and cattle numbers fell by more than 40 per cent. It was 1925 before the sheep numbers reached the hundred-million mark again. At the time of Federation, Australia suffered a major drought. There had been a number of years of below average...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7870060 ... Read more