Tag: Drought

Free Download World Bank Group, "Overcoming Drought: Adaptation Strategies for Andhra Pradesh, India"
English | 2006 | pages: 168 | ISBN: 0821366645 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Using recent advances in modeling climate-related risks and adjusting state of the art catastrophic risk modeling techniques to drought, the study conducts an innovative long-term assessment of drought risks in Andhra Pradesh, India, and suggests strategies to reduce their impact, under several economic, drought management and climate change scenarios. The analysis deepens an understanding of climate risk adaptation strategies, including implications for agricultural and catastrophic risk insurance.

Free Download Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Country Perspective By Kurt Schwabe, Jose Albiac, Jeffery D. Connor (auth.), Kurt Schwabe, Jose Albiac, Jeffery D. Connor, Rashid M. Hassan, Liliana Meza González (eds.)
2013 | 507 Pages | ISBN: 9400766351 | PDF | 9 MB
Offering a cross-country examination and comparison of drought awareness and experience, this book shows how scientists, water managers, and policy makers approach drought and water scarcity in arid and semi-arid regions of Spain, Mexico, Australia, South Africa and the United States.

Free Download Managing Soil Drought
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103235240X | 441 Pages | PDF (True) | 47 MB
Global drylands, covering over 40% of Earth’s land surface, are important among worldwide ecoregions and support large human and livestock populations. However, these ecologically sensitive ecoregions are undergoing a rapid transformation resulting from climate change, socioeconomic and political factors, increases in population, and ever-growing demands for goods and services.

Free Download Ana Iglesias, Luis Garrote, Antonio Cancelliere, "Coping with Drought Risk in Agriculture and Water Supply Systems: Drought Management and Policy Development in the Mediterranean"
English | 2009 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1402090447, 9400789521 | PDF | 11,3 mb
Over the last three decades drought episodes have resulted in severe social problems in Mediterranean countries, receiving broad attention from the international scientific and policy communities. The experiences in the development and implementation of drought management plans highlight the success and challenges of coping with drought for societies with different vulnerabilities and emphasize risk-based drought management as a critical approach to mitigate the impacts associated to drought-induced water shortages. Based on these experiences and the current methods for evaluating risk, the book synthesises guidelines for drought management that link science and policy and that can be applied to other regions.

Free Download Salinity and Drought Tolerance in Plants: Physiological Perspectives
by Ashwani Kumar, Pooja Dhansu
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819946689 | 606 Pages | PDF/ePUB (True) | 49 MB

Free Download The Wife Drought: Why Women Need Wives and Men Need Lives by Annabel Crabb
English | 1 September 2015 | ISBN: 0857984284 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 0.3 MB
‘I need a wife’

Free Download R.L. Heathcote, "Drought and the Human Story: Braving the Bull of Heaven"
English | 2013 | pages: 318 | ISBN: 140940501X, 1138248746 | PDF | 4,1 mb
Drought has been a long companion in the human story. Mythologised as the devastating Bull of Heaven in one of the earliest heroic legends to come out of Mesapotamia, drought has continued to wreak havoc upon societies, in many cases playing a significant role in their final demise. For societies in the 21st Century drought hovers on all horizons, the ultimate drought-proofing of society – long sought – remains elusive. This study of the human conceptualization of drought in a global setting examines the historical record from early human society through to present day concerns to explore how and why attitudes to drought have changed and why the mitigation of its impacts has become more difficult. To offer a more lasting strategy for protection against drought, the author argues that physical scientists need to combine their skills in understanding global ecology and their technological expertise with the social scientists’ awareness of the socio-economic, political and cultural contexts in which modern societies operate. Both will have to ensure that their cooperative strategies for drought management will be understood and supported by the public. If this cooperation can be achieved, the future rampages of the Bull of Heaven may be contained.

Free Download Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature by Stephen Robert Miller
English | October 31st, 2023 | ISBN: 1642832561 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 3.38 MB
In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed-naively-that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them. Erratic weather, blistering drought, rising seas, and ecosystem collapse now affect every inch of the globe. Increasingly, we no longer look to stop climate change, choosing instead to adapt to it.

Free Download Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJQ9THL | 2023 | 8 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Stephen Robert Miller
Narrator: Jon Vertullo
In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed-naively-that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them. Erratic weather, blistering drought, rising seas, and ecosystem collapse now affect every inch of the globe. Increasingly, we no longer look to stop climate change, choosing instead to adapt to it. Never have so many undertaken such a widespread, hurried attempt to remake the world. Predictably, our hubris has led to unintended-and sometimes disastrous-consequences.