drought, i.e., ecosystem resilience; (2) rural communities’ abilities to adapt to drought, mediated via their access to assets … analyzing how a range of external pressuresaffect the vulnerability of dryland pastoral systems in the Kalahari. This is … drought. Specifically, we evaluate how external pressures have changed: (1) different agroecosystems' abilities to tolerate …

agriculture); India (high climatic variability, small areas, medium level inputs, technologically progressing; and Europe …

effectiveness of using weather derivatives to hedge against drought risks forrain-fed grain maize production was investigated for …

degrees of drought over the last two decades. Water withdrawal and consumption are integral and unavoidable components of the … vulnerable to electricity supply disruptions in times of severe drought. In this report, an attempt is made to quantify the … issues en-route to quantifying the impact of drought including: identifying areas in the state historically prone to drought …

Economic resilience is a specific feature of economic and monetary unions, because their policies of addressing the … vulnerability hazard by addressing the shocks head-on, by preventing unsustainable booms, by reducing the amplitude of recession and …