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By Kathleen A. Miller, Alan F. Hamlet, Douglas S. Kenney, Kelly T. Redmond
April 03, 2018
Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate addresses the current challenges facing western water planners and policy makers in the United States and considers strategies for managing water resources and related risks in the future. Written by highly-regarded experts in the ...
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By Linda Courtenay Botterill, Geoff Cockfield
November 22, 2017
Australia and the United States face very similar challenges in dealing with drought. Both countries cover a range of biophysical conditions, both are federations that provide considerable responsibility to state governments for water and land management, and both face the challenges in balancing ...
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By Donald Wilhite, Roger S. Pulwarty
November 09, 2017
Over the past decade there have been extraordinary advances towards drought risk reduction with the development of new water-conserving technologies, and new tools for planning, vulnerability and impact assessment, mitigation, and policy. Drought and Water Crises: Integrating Science, Management, ...
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By Brian D. Wardlow, Martha C. Anderson, James P. Verdin
April 16, 2017
Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches presents emerging remote sensing-based tools and techniques that can be applied to operational drought monitoring and early warning around the world. The first book to focus on remote sensing and drought monitoring, it brings together a ...
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By Erwin De Nys, Nathan Engle, Antônio Rocha Magalhães
July 07, 2016
Drought is a slow-onset natural hazard that is often referred to as a creeping phenomenon. The challenge of monitoring drought’s onset and evolution, and identifying its termination or end is one that scientists, natural resource managers, and decision makers have been struggling with for decades. ...
