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The Quantification of Drought: An Evaluation of Drought Indices
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2002Abstract Indices for objectively quantifying the severity of meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological forms of drought are discussed. Indices for each drought form are judged according to six weighted evaluation criteria: robustness, tractability, transparency, sophistication, extendability, and dimensionality.
John Keyantash, John A. Dracup
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Gender and Drought: Experiences of Australian Women in the Drought of the 1990s
Disasters, 2000A unique collaborative, sociological study undertaken during 1995–7, explored the social construction of drought as a disaster, with farm families in two Australian states: Queensland (beef producers) and New South Wales (sheep/wheat producers). A decision was made to interview the women and men separately to test our hypothesis that there would be ...
Stehlik, D, Lawrence, G, Gray, L
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Drought and Drought Mitigation in Europe
2000Preface. Part 1: Introduction. Introduction J.V. Vogt, F. Somma. Drought Events in Europe R.B. Bradford. Part 2: Drought Definition. Drought Definition: A Hydrological Perspective E.L. Tate, A. Gustard. Definition, Effects and Assessment of Groundwater Droughts H.A.J. van Lanen, E. Peters.
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Drought and Dependence in the Sahel
International Journal of Health Services, 1978The relationship between human activity and environmental degradation has been documented in numerous studies. With regard to West Africa, E. P. Stebbing was already warning of ecological degradation due to overcultivation and overgrazing in the 1930s.
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Exceptional Persistence: Drought and Drought Policy
2010Drought policy in Australia has a long history of being criticized for muddling means and ends, and for being inefficient and inequitable. The broad proposition of this paper is that analysing agricultural policy, such as drought policy, is likely to be more productive if analysts went further than the common approach of describing the situation as ...
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Drought policy and drought planning in Africa
International Journal of Water Resources Development, 1990The Sahelian droughts of 1968–73 and 1982–84 and their disastrous consequences compelled the people of Africa to focus on the problem of drought menace. Drought cannot be prevented, but there are possibilities of predicting it to provide the necessary information for early warning and prepardness.
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