Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: Vogt, Jürgen V.
Other Author(s): Somma, Francesca
Title: Drought and Drought Mitigation in Europe
Publisher Date: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000
Subject(s): Drought
Mitigation
Agriculture
Risk assessment
Preparedness
Environment
Climate
Monitoring
Space (outer)
Vulnerability
Lessons learned
Water
Food security
Trade
Spain
Europe
United States
Hungary
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000
Description: 325 p. (col. maps)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Drought is one of the major natural hazards, resulting in
significant 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 European drought policy and
institutional frameworks to cope with drought situations
are only weakly developed. This book is dedicated to
furthering our understanding of the drought problem in
Europe and to discussing policy and management options
to mitigate its impacts. It covers aspects from the
detection of water stress to the planning of mitigation
strategies. The contributions are written by recognised
experts in their field and represent a unique collection
of papers on the topic. Audience: The book will be of
benefit to scientists, managers, and politicians
involved in problems related to water management, risk
assessment, and spatial planning. Students in Earth
Sciences, especially in geography, climatology,
hydrology, and agriculture, will find useful material in
this collection of papers.
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Call Number: DRR10261
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: Wilhite, Donald A.
Title: Drought and Water Crises: Science, Technology, and
Management Issues
Publisher Date: Taylor and Francis 2005
Subject(s): Drought
Water management
Science
Technology
Hazard
Climate
Prediction
Mitigation
Monitoring
Planning
Capacity building
Policy
Lessons learned
Water conservation
Coping capacity
Water scarcity
Climate change
Vulnerability
Transboundary waters
Forecast
Disaster risk management
Spain
Australia
South Africa
United States
Canada
China
Publisher: Taylor and Francis 2005
Description: 406 p. (ill.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
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Call Number: DRR10262
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Title: Human Development Report 2006: Beyond scarcity, power,
poverty and the global water crisis
Publisher Date: UNDP 2006
Subject(s): Development
Water scarcity
Poverty
Sanitation
History
Lessons learned
Economics
Children
Health
Gender
Millennium Development Goals
Urban
Finance
Policy
Risk
Vulnerability
Agriculture
Governance
Irrigation
Transboundary waters
United Kingdom
United States
Kenya
Philippines
South Africa
Cote d'Ivoire
Chile
Uganda
Morocco
India
China
Yemen
Mexico
Brazil
Senegal
Tanzania
Central Asia
Viet Nam
Cambodia
Colombia
Indonesia
Ethiopoa
Aral Sea
Lake Chad
Publisher: UNDP 2006
Description: 422 p. (maps)
Notes: Includes bibliography p. 238-260 and index
The 2006 Human Development Report focuses on water and
human development. Water is central to the realization
of human potential. It is a source of life for people
and for the planet. Clean water and sanitation have a
profound bearing on health and human dignity.
Inequalities in access to clean water for drinking and
to water as a productive input, reinforce wider
inequalities in opportunity. With competition for water
intensifying, there is a danger that poor and vulnerable
communities will become increasingly marginalized. The
twin challenge facing governments and donors is to
accelerate progress towards universal access to water
and sanitation; and to ensure that water management
policies strengthen the rights of poor households to
access water resources.
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Call Number: DRR10263
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Other Author(s): United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
(CGIAR)
World Bank
Title: Agency Collaboration for UNCCD Implementation, Current
Situation and Lessons Learned: United Nations Convention
to Combat Desertification, COP 6, 25 August-5 September
2003, Havana, Cuba
Publisher Date: UNDP/IFAD/CGIAR/UNCCD/the Global Mechanism and the World
Bank [?]
Subject(s): Desertification
Lessons learned
Sustainable development
Land degradation
Environment
Poverty
Millennium Development Goals
Agriculture
Rural
Cuba
Africa
Publisher: UNDP/IFAD/CGIAR/UNCCD/the Global Mechanism and the World
Bank [?]
Description: 24 p. (ill.)
Notes: This joint publication of the Facilitation Committee of the
Global Mechanism for the UNCCD CoP-6, (25 Aug - 5 Sept
2003, Havana, Cuba), presents short briefs by Committee
members highlighting their commitment to CCD process and
its implementation. It concludes by providing some
lessons learnt from collaboration between members
through a matrix of successful collaborative efforts to
date.
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Call Number: DRR10264
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
Title: Stockholm Water Front, A Forum for Global Water Issues, No.
4, December 2006
Publisher Date: SIWI 2006
ISSN: 1102-7053
ISBN: 1102-7053
Subject(s): Water
Water scarcity
Poverty
Water supply
Sanitation
Development
Publisher: SIWI 2006
Description: 16 p. (col. ill.)
Notes: Stockholm Water Front is a quarterly, English-language
magazine that spreads knowledge on important water and
water-related issues. Stockholm Water Front presents a
mix of popular scientific information and news reporting
about the activities of the Stockholm International
Water Institute.
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Call Number: DRR10265
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Title: Thematic Programme Network on Renewable Energies in the
context of the fight against Desertification In Africa
(TPN5)
Publisher Date: UNCCD [?]
Subject(s): Information
Network
Desertification
Energy
Poverty
Sustainable development
Capacity building
Africa
Publisher: UNCCD [?]
Description: 6 p. (col. ill.)
Notes: Bilingual English French
TPN5 is a platform on renewable energies and their
interrelationship with the fight against desertification
and poverty. It is a framework for dialogue and action,
aiming at greater harmonisation of policies for
promoting these energies.
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Call Number: DRR10266
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Title: Workshop to Launch the Thematic Programme Network on
Renewable Sources of Energy and Environmentally Sound
Technologies within the context of the Regional Action
Programme to Combat Desertification in Africa: TPN5,
Nairobi, Kenya, 5-6 May 2004, General Report
Publisher Date: UNCCD 2004
Subject(s): Information
Network
Desertification
Energy
Poverty
Sustainable development
Capacity building
Africa
Publisher: UNCCD 2004
Description: 26-26 p.
Notes: Bilingual English French
Includes bibliography p. 20-21
Energy issues are at the centre of natural resources
degradation in the rural sector of the African
continent making the development and promotion of new
and renewable energy resources a critical environmental
issue that cannot be separated from combating
desertification and poverty eradication. The
over-dependence of rural communities on fuel wood to
meet their energy requirements has contributed to
massive deforestation and biodiversity loss, leading to
soil erosion, land degradation and water shortages
through the siltation of water sources, rivers and dams.
This environmental degradation process has caused
significant negative effects on the economies and
living standards of local communities and exacerbated
poverty and environmental degradation.
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Call Number: DRR10267
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Title: Promotion of Traditional Knowledge: A Compilation of UNCCD
Documents and Reports from 1997-2003
Publisher Date: UNCCD 2005
Subject(s): Indigenous knowledge
Community action
Environment
Drylands
Ecosystem
Desertification
Land use
Africa
Publisher: UNCCD 2005
Description: 156 p. (col. ill.)
Notes: Bilingual English French
Includes bibliographical references
This publication aims to contribute to an understanding of
traditional knowledge and how its application can
minimize land degradation and desertification in arid
and semi-arid zones and dry sub-humid zones. It is
primarily intended to help those following the UNCCD
process to take into account the development of
traditional knowledge issues in the context of the work
of the Committee on Science and Technology of the
UNCCD. The document offers the fundamental information
that may be useful to government officials,
non-governmental organizations and academic
institutions. The publication is organized in three
sections and presents the relevant COP decisions, the
official CST reports from the Ad hoc panels, followed by
consultants' reports.
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Call Number: DRR10268
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Title: Drought Monitoring and Early Warning: Concepts, Progress
and Future Challenges
Publisher Date: WMO 2006
Subject(s): Drought
Early warning systems
Monitoring
Climate
Prediction
China
South Africa
Portugal
Australia
Publisher: WMO 2006
Description: 24 p. (col. ill.)
Notes: As part of its implementation activities for IYDD, WMO
has prepared this brochure to explain the various
concepts and challenges of drought monitoring and early
warning systems. This brochure also details the
considerable progress that has been made on these
issues in some drought-prone countries by highlighting
several case studies from around the world.
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Call Number: DRR10269
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: Hellmuth, Molly E.
Other Author(s): Moorhead, Anne
Thomson, Madeleine C.
Williams, Jim
International Research Institute for Climate and Society
(IRI)
Title: Climate risk management in Africa: Learning from practice,
Climate and Society No. 1
Publisher Date: IRI 2007
Subject(s): Climate
Disaster risk management
Development
Climate change
Floods
Food security
Health
Drought
Lessons learned
Africa
Mozambique
Ethiopia
South Africa
Malawi
Publisher: IRI 2007
Description: 104 p. (col. ill.)
Notes: Includes bibliography p. 99-101
The inaugural issue, called Climate Risk Management in
Africa: Learning from practice, describes current
efforts that are helping societies better adapt, and
shows that when climate information successfully reaches
vulnerable populations, it can be used to improve
livelihoods and economies, and even save lives. The
report was launched on January 30th during a special
session of the 8th African Union Heads-of-State Summit
held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It details five examples
of how climate risks are being effectively managed in
Africa.
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Call Number: DRR10270
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Title: Hydropolitical Vulnerability and resilience along
International Waters: Africa
Publisher Date: UNEP 2006
Subject(s): Vulnerability
Water
Governance
Resilience
Irrigation
Climate
Climate change
Population
Transboundary waters
Freshwater
Africa
South Africa
Publisher: UNEP 2006
Description: 164 p. (col. ill.)
Notes: Includes bibliography p. 141-147 and index
This is the first report in a series of assessment reports
in different geographic regions on hydropolitical
vulnerability and resilience along international waters.
It presents a comprehensive assessment of the
hydropolitical vulnerability of Africa's international
waters. It also presents concrete and comprehensive data
on the cooperative agreements, in-place and those being
developed, in the major water-basins on the continent.
These will deal with the hydropolitical vulnerabilities
and develop sustainable resilience and provide informed
policies at the regional, sub-regional and national
levels.
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Call Number: DRR10271
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Africa
Title: Water and risk in Africa: a school's guide
Publisher Date: UN/ISDR Africa 2004
Subject(s): Water
Education
Drought
Floods
Environment
Health
Africa
Publisher: UN/ISDR Africa 2004
Description: 31 p. (col. ill.)
Notes: Bibliography p. 29-30
Water and Risk... These two words may look strange one next
to the other. Indeed, water is generally helpful. But it
is also true that water can be harmful: too little water
is risk of drought, too much water is risk of flood,
water - too scarce - is risk of conflict, water - impure
- is risk of disease. Worse, these risks can lead to
disasters. They can destroy property and ... life. Yet,
this should not always be the case. There is much we can
do. Each of us, teachers and students, we can take
action. In fact, we should take action because when it
is a matter of life and death, we should not expect
others to do it for us. It is in the light of the above
concern that the present booklet entitled Water and Risk
in Africa - A School's Guide has been produced. This
booklet seeks to help you to know more about risks and
disasters related to water, and also about what to do to
protect lives and property. It seeks to help you, as a
teacher, to help your students to be risk aware and
learn to protect their own lives and property. Still
better, it also seeks to help you, as a school student,
to help your family, your relatives and your friends to
protect their own lives and property.
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Call Number: DRR10272
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Title: Women of the earth: nurturing the future
Publisher Date: Bonn : UNCCD, 2005
Subject(s): Desertification
Gender
Publisher: Bonn : UNCCD, 2005
Description: 31 p. : ill. (Col.)
Notes: Case studies from all over the world about the inputs of
women management of natural resources and their impact
in the combat against desertification.
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Call Number: DRR10273
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Other Author(s): Norse, Elliott A.
Center for Marine Conservation
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
World Conservation Union (IUCN)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Title: Global marine biological diversity : a strategy for
building conservation into decision making
Publisher Date: Washington, DC : Island Press, 1993
Subject(s): Biodiversity
Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, 1993
Description: xxxii, 383 p. : ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references p. 327-354, glossary.
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Call Number: DRR10274
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: UN-Water
Title: Coping with Water Scarcity: A strategic issue and priority
for system-wide action
Publisher Date: UN-Water 2006
Subject(s): Water scarcity
Coping capacity
Freshwater
Sustainable development
Water management
Publisher: UN-Water 2006
Description: 12 p. (col. ill.)
Notes: UN-Water is the mechanism coordinating the actions of the
United Nations (UN) system aimed at implementing the
agenda set by the Millennium Declaration and the World
Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in all aspects
related to freshwater. UN-Water has grown out of many
years of extensive collaboration and partnership among
the UN agencies. These efforts have helped to achieve
significant progress and to bring water and
water-related issues to the top of the political agenda.
UN-Water has identified coping with water scarcity as
part of the strategic issues and priorities requiring
joint action. This note presents the UN-Water joint plan
of action (PoA) for this thematic initiative and
describes its elements.
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Call Number: DRR10275
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Title: Making Progress on Environmental Sustainability: Lessons
and Recommendations from a review of over 150 MDG
Country Reports
Publisher Date: UNDP 2006
Subject(s): Millennium Development Goals
Governance
Poverty
Prevention
Recovery
Environment
Energy
HIV/AIDS
Human rights
Gender
Land management
Sustainable development
Water
Desertification
Lessons learned
Publisher: UNDP 2006
Description: 86 p.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Environmental sustainability shows weak progress towards
the targets and insufficient monitoring capacity and
systems. While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
framework is offers advantages in being managed as a
group of interrelated targets, Millennium Development
Goal 7 (MDG 7) on environmental sustainability warrants
particular attention given the weaknesses both in
monitoring and in overall progress.
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Call Number: DRR10276
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations (FAO)
Title: Drought impact mitigation and prevention in the Limpopo
River Basin, A situation analysis: Land and Water
Discussion Paper 4
Publisher Date: FAO 2004
Subject(s): Drought
Mitigation
Prevention
Climate
Rainfall
Forecast
Geology
Erosion
Environment
Water resources
Land degradation
Vegetation
Economics
Desertification
Policy
HIV/AIDS
Poverty
Food security
Land use
Agriculture
Irrigation
Forestry
Community action
South Africa
Publisher: FAO 2004
Description: 160 p. (col. maps)
Notes: Includes bibliography p. 149-160
In southern Africa, more frequent exposure to drought
events causes agricultural production to be out of
equilibrium with the seasonal conditions, representing
an inability on the part of most smallholders to adjust
land use to climate variability. Thus, managing for
drought is about managing for the risks associated with
agriculture, and managing for climate variability must
become the norm rather than the exception. Farmers must
either increase agricultural productivity or develop
alternative sources of income if their livelihoods are
to be sustained. Acceptance of this principle implies
the need to better understand the underlying
environmental, economic and social causes of drought
impacts, and to identify mitigating actions that will
address these underlying causes of vulnerability to
future droughts. The situation analysis presented in
this report aims to provide readers with an
understanding of the people and their environment in the
Limpopo River Basin in southern Africa, covering parts
of the four countries of Botswana, Mozambique, South
Africa and Zimbabwe. It examines the biophysical,
socio-economic and institutional characteristics of the
basin and captures details of past programmes and
practices. It concludes with a section on lessons
learned and proposes options and strategies for
sustainable development, with a focus on drought impact
mitigation.
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Call Number: DRR10277
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: Stahl, Kerstin
Title: Hydrological Drought, a Study across Europe: Dissertation
zur Vergabe des Doktorgrades der Geowissenschaftlichen
Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.
Br.
Publisher Date: Institut für Hydrologie der Universität Freiburg 2001
Subject(s): Drought
Meteorology
Climate
Geology
Hydrology
Modeling
Climate change
Prediction
Risk assessment
Europe
Publisher: Institut für Hydrologie der Universität Freiburg 2001
Description: 122 p. (maps)
Notes: Includes bibliography p. 107-112
Aiming at a better understanding of drought causes and
processes, the present study investigated hydrological
drought characteristics in space and time and their
large-scale atmospheric driving forces in Europe. On the
basis of daily streamflow data of more than 600 European
rivers for 1962-1990, two types of events were defined:
streamflow drought, defined by a seasonally constant
threshold and streamflow deficiency, defined by a new
varying threshold level method. By the means of cluster
analysis, the 602 streamflow deficiency series across
Europe were classified into 19 regions. A regional
streamflow deficiency index (RDI) provided a parameter
describing how strong a region is affected by streamflow
deficiency. This index allowed a first assessment of the
space-time characteristics of the major dry spells in
Europe in 1962-90. Regions such as Spain, SE-UK,
S-Scandinavia and N-Germany show a tendency to
persistent dry spells while the index fluctuates more
strongly in other regions. Anomalies of atmospheric
circulation patterns (Europäische Grosswetterlagen)
during severe regional streamflow deficit were analysed.
The grouped circulation patterns (CP) provide an
adequate input for a new model to predict the regional
streamflow deficiency index. Two different applications
of the CP-RDI link model were tested: historic
reconstruction and scenario prediction of regional
streamflow deficiency indices. The reconstruction since
1881 confirms the trend towards drier conditions in the
end of the 20th century in Spain and shows changes
towards longer dry spells after the 1960s in some
regions. The response to the scenario, which was
motivated by changes in circulation patterns attributed
to climate change, confirm that Europe will be exposed
to generally wetter conditions, however rare and severe
drought may increase in some regions.
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Call Number: DRR10278
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: World Bank
Title: Hazards of nature, risks to development: An IEG Evaluation
of World Bank Assistance for Natural Disasters
Publisher Date: World Bank 2006
Subject(s): Hazards
Development
Natural disasters
Recovery
Response
Reconstruction
Disaster risk management
Prediction
Planning
Poverty
Vulnerability
Policy
Relief
Preparedness
Prevention
Mitigation
Economics
Building codes
Publisher: World Bank 2006
Description: 181 p. (ill.)
Notes: Includes bibliography p. 179-181
This evaluation of the World Bank's experience with natural
disasters was done be the Independent Evaluation
Group-World Bank at the request of the Bank's Board of
Executive Directors. Natural disasters are affecting
development in many countries, setting back hard-won
development gains. This report is a comprehensive review
of disaster preparedness and response. The report calls
for new thinking that integrates predictable disaster
risks into development programs. It concludes that it is
possible to anticipate where many natural disasters will
strike, yet expresses concerns that the World Bank's
disaster assistance efforts are underutilizing these
vital lifesaving forecasts.
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Call Number: DRR10279
Location: ISDR Main
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Database: UN/ISDR Library on Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Material: Monograph (print, microform, electronic, etc)
Main Author: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
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