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Most present-day drought management practices are event-based. This book provides the desired collateral information about the onset, progress and termination of drought. Different chapters provide insight into the various aspects of drought; drought indicators; clouds and their classification; surface and sub-surface water and storage system; soil and crop type and water requirement; an overview of orbital satellite data analysis; spatial data and geographical ...
Drought events are reported to have occurred for more than 200 years and even from the paleoclimatic ages. People have learned to live with the event. The purpose of this book is to disseminate methods that are being available for total understanding of drought. The severe drought events, their probable impacts on the environment and various drought indices being used in describing these events (climate, hydrology, agriculture and socioeconomic) are given in ...
Natural disasters such as earthquake, landslide, flood, drought, cyclone, volcanic eruptions, environmental degradation etc. are of global phenomenon. Most of the countries are experiencing either one or more disasters at regular interval. International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, of the UN resolution (1989) aims at minimizing the loss of life damage to property and disruption of economic and social activities through concerted actions. Dissemination ...
Human settlements in the semi-arid region often suffer from the change in monsoon rainfall. Presence of degraded surface rainwater storage systems in these areas and meticulous design practices indicate the integrated approach followed by the civilization in conservation. The present civilization adopted the technological advances in their living style. Hence, large qualities of water are transported over long distances in meeting their demands. This has led to ...