Monitoring drought’s slow evolution and identifying the end of a drought is still a big challenge for scientists, natural resource managers, and decision makers. This comprehensive two-volume set with contributions from over 200 experts, and featuring case studies representing numerous countries throughout the world, discusses different aspects of drought from types, indices, and forecasting to monitoring, modeling, and mitigation measures. It also addresses how climate change is impacting drought and decision-making concluding with lessons learned about science, policy, and managing uncertainty.
Features:
- Provides a global perspective on drought prediction and management and a synthesis of the recent state of knowledge.
- Covers a wide range of topics from essential concepts and advanced techniques for forecasting and modeling drought to societal impacts, consequences, and planning
- Presents numerous case studies with different management approaches from different regions and countries.
- Addresses how climate change impacts drought, the increasing challenges associated with managing drought, decision making, and policy implications.
- Includes contributions from hundreds of experts around the world.
Professionals, researchers, academics, and postgraduate students with knowledge in Environmental Sciences, Ecology, Agriculture, Forestry, Hydrology, Water Resources Engineering, and Earth Sciences, as well as those interested in how climate change impacts drought management, will gain new insights from the experts featured in this two-volume handbook.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1:
1. Understanding Drought: definitions, causes, assessments, forecasts, and management 2. Drought concepts, its characterization and indicators 3. Spatial Assessment of Meteorological and Agricultural Drought in Northern India 4. Assessment of meteorological drought characteristics in Brazil 5. Drought in Rio de Janeiro State, Southeast Brazil 6. The Mexican drought (2011): an insight into the 29-month drought in Aguascalientes 7. Investigating the relationship between the temporal distribution of precipitation and flow shortness volume over Lake Urmia Basin, Iran 8. Long-Term Drought Study in Algeria based on Meteorological Data 9. Severe droughts over India 10. Comparison of Bhalme-Mooley Drought Index with Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index: The Case of Okavango Delta, Botswana 11. Analysis of drought using a modified version of the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index 12. Evaluation of an Evapotranspiration Deficit-based Drought Index and its Impacts on Carbon Productivity in the Levant and Iraq 13. Analysis of meteorological drought using Joint Deficit Index based on downscaled precipitation data 14. Comparability Analyses of three Meteorological Drought Indices in Turkey 15. Trend identification in multi-scalar SPI over Uttarakhand, India 16. Temporal Trends of Aridity Index under Subtropical Highland Climate in Northeast India 17. Observed trends in annual aridity index in North-central Mexico 18. Hydrological Drought Index based on Streamflow Regime 19. Meteorological drought assessment in mountainous regions based on outputs of general circulation models 20. Climate Change Impact on Groundwater Droughts: Case study Groundwater-dependent Irrigation System 21. Impact of Climate Change on Occurrence and Severity of Drought 22. Climate Change effect on Crop Water Stress: case study of Syria 23. Biodiversity and Functions of Alluvial System Facing Severe Droughts Induced by Global Change 24. Climate change impacts on meteorological and hydrological droughts and their hazard propagations in China 25. Climate Change may raise Physiology Disorders on the Grape (Vitis Vinifera l) and Pecan (Carya Illinoinensis) in the Sonoran Desert, Mexico 26. Scientific evidence supporting the progression of climate change-induced drought from the history 27. Climate Change, Drought and Water Resources 28. Climate Change and Gender Drudgery in Rice Based Mono-cropping System of Meghalaya State in North Eastern Hill Region of India: Impact Evaluation
Volume 2
1. Spatial and temporal linkages between large‐scale atmospheric oscillations and hydrologic drought indices in Turkey 2.Spatio-temporal drought analysis 3.Analysis of spatial variability and patterns of drought: A case study for Serbia 4. Spatial and temporal trend pattern of drought in Bangladesh in the past four decades 5. Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Meteorological Drought in Tripura, Northeast India 6.Drought assessments in the non-stationary domain 7. Drought monitoring in Arid and Semiarid environments using Aridity Indices (AI) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) 8.Soil moisture drought estimation using hydrological modelling approach for a river basin of Eastern India 9. Meteorological Drought Prediction Using Hybrid Machine Learning Models: Ant Lion Optimizer Vs Multi-Verse Optimizer 10. Uncertainty Analysis of Bivariate Modeling of Hydrological Drought Severity and Duration Using Copula 11. Copula based Bivariate Frequency analysis of Drought Characteristics over India 12. Application of Fuzzy Rule Base Model for Forecasting Drought 13. A copula-based joint deficit index for the analysis of droughts in New Zealand 14. Comparative copula‐based multivariate meteorological drought analysis: a case study from Northeast India 15. Multivariate Assessment of Drought Using Composite Drought Index 16. A multi-model ensemble based drought characterization over India for 21st century 17. Drought Characteristics and Forecasting Under Climate Change Conditions: a case study of Indonesia 18. Stochastic Modelling of Water Deficit over Different Agro-climatic Zones of Karnataka 19. The tree-ring-based drought and flood analyses from the Himalayan region: Limitations, Challenges, and Future Perspectives 20. Remote sensing capabilities for observational drought assessme 21. Four decades of satellite data for agricultural drought monitoring throughout the growing season in Central Chile 22. Application of multi-source data for drought monitoring and assessment over the Yellow River Basin, China 23. Analysis of Agricultural Drought in Southwest Iran using Remote Sensing indices 24. Soil Moisture-Vegetation Stress-based Agricultural Drought Index Integrating Remote Sensing Derived Soil Moisture and Vegetation Indices 25. Application of drought monitoring tools for wildfire hazard assessment in forests of India 26. Hydrological Drought Impacts on River Water Quality of Peninsular River System, Tunga-Bhadra River, India 27. Integrated Drought Management: Moving from Managing Disasters to Managing Risk 28. Is India Ready to Account for Ecological Droughts? 29. Water Transfer 3. A Compact Policy to Combat Water Scarcity 31. Water Pricing focusing Drought Conditions 32. Incorporating ecosystem services into drought planning: Lessons from two place-based applications from the US West 33.Drought tolerance agronomic management strategies for rainfed and irrigated maize crop in Eastern India 34. Life despite drought in the Brazilian semiarid 35. Gender Responsive Solutions for Managing Drought in the Hindu Kush Himalaya 36. Conventional and Advanced Irrigation Scheduling Techniques to mitigate drought 37. Water Resources, Uses and its Integrated Management in the United Arab Emirates 38. Droughts, distress, impact, and mitigation: case study of Jammu and Kashmir 39. Different in-situ moisture conservation options in rainfed agro-ecologies of Odisha
About the Author :
Professor V.P. Singh is a University Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He received his B.S., M.S., Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in engineering. He is a registered professional engineer, a registered professional hydrologist, and an honorary diplomat of ASCE-AAWRE. He is a distinguished member of ASCE, an Honorary Member of IWRA, a Distinguished Fellow of AGGS, and an Honorary Member of AWRA, and a fellow of EWRI-ASCE, IAH, ISAE, IWRS, and IASWC. He has published extensively in the areas of hydrology, irrigation engineering, hydraulics, groundwater, water quality, and water resources with more than 1370 journal articles; 32 textbooks; 75 edited reference books, including Handbook of Applied Hydrology and Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers; 115 book chapters; and 315 conference papers. He has received more than 100 national and international awards, including three honorary doctorates. He is a member of 12 international science/engineering academies. He has served as President of the American Institute of Hydrology (AIH);President of American Academy of Water Resources Engineers; President of International Association for Water, Environment, Energy, and Society; and Chair of Watershed Council of American Society of Civil Engineers. He has served as editor-in-chief of five journals and two book series and serves on editorial boards of more than 25 journals and three book series. His Google Scholar citations are 72,000; h-index of 119; and I10-index of 1025.
Professor Deepak Jhajharia, Ph. D., is currently working as Professor in Department of Soil & Water Conservation Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering & Post Harvest Technology (Central Agricultural University), Ranipool, Gangtok, Sikkim, India. He is also acting as principal investigator of All India Coordinated Research Project on Plastic Engineering in Agriculture Structures and Environment Management (CAEPHT centre) funded by Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He did graduation in Agricultural Engineering in 1998 from College of Technology and Engineering (MPUAT), Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, and post-graduation in Water Resources Engineering from Department of Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He obtained his Ph. D. degree from Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He is the recipient of the prestigious Science Without Border scholarship - Young Talent of CNPq (Brazil) as Research Collaborator at Department of Agronomy, Universidade Federal Rural De Pernambuco (UFRPE), Ministry of Education, Brazil. He has 22 years of academic experience and has published over 85 papers in peer-reviewed journals, books, reports or extension bulletins. He has guided one Ph. D. and 13 M. Tech. theses in the field of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering along with many undergraduate theses in the field of Agricultural Engineering. He is co-editor of "Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change" and "Applied Agricultural Practices for Mitigating Climate Change" published by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, USA. He also conducted 21-day Summer School for scientists from ICAR and faculty members from different universities of India and one 90-day skill development training programme on Greenhouse Technology for school drop-outs and unemployed rural youth from six states of northeast India. He was awarded the CSIRO Land and Water Publication Award 2013, CSIRO Australia for global review paper published in Journal of Hydrology. He was also adjudged the best extension scientist (2017-18) of the AICRP on PET in recognition of outstanding contribution for extension and popularization of Plasticulture Technologies in Sikkim. He is recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award (in 2016) by College of Technology and Engineering Alumni Society, CTAE (MPUAT), Udaipur. He was elected as the Fellow of Indian Association of Hydrologists, Roorkee (in 2015) and Indian Water Resources Society, Roorkee (2019). He is also a life member of 14 different professional societies from India and abroad. His Google Scholar citations are 3,042 and h-index of 18.
Dr. Rasoul Mirabbasi is an Associate Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering at Shahrekord University, Iran. He is also Head of the Water Resources Center of Shahrekord University. His research focuses mainly on Statistical and Environmental Hydrology and Climate Change. In particular, he is working on Modeling Natural Hazards including Flood, Drought, Wind, and Pollution toward a sustainable environment. Formerly, he was a Visiting Researcher at University of Connecticut, United States. He has contributed to more than 150 publications in journals, books, or as technical reports. Dr. Mirabbasi is the reviewer of about 30 Web of Science (ISI) Journals. His Google Scholar citations are 1,916 and h-index of 22.
Dr. Rohitashw Kumar
(B.E., M.E., Ph. D.) is Professor in College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, She-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. He is also holding additional charge of Associate Dean, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology and SKUAST- Kashmir, Srinagar (India). He is also Professor Water Chair (Sheikkul Alam Shiekh Nuruddin Water Chair), Ministry of Water Resources, Govt. of India, at National Institute of Technology, Srinagar (J&K). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the Water Resources Engineering from NIT, Hamirpur and Master of Engineering Degree in Irrigation Water Management Engineering from MPUAT, Udaipur. He got Special Research award in 2017 and Student Incentive Award-2015 (Ph.D. Research) from Soil Conservation Society of India, New Delhi. He has also got the first prize in India for best M. Tech thesis in Agricultural Engineering in year 2001. He graduated from Maharana Pratap University of Agricultural and Technology, Udaipur, India, in Agricultural Engineering. He has published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 4 practical manuals and 20 chapters in books. He has guided 10 post-graduate students in soil and water engineering. He has handled more than 10 research projects as a principal or co-principal investigator. Since 2011, he has been Principal Investigator of All India Coordinated Research Project on Plastic Engineering in Agriculture Structures and Environment Management (Srinagar centre) funded by Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. His Google Scholar citations are 1,148 and h-index of 18.
