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supply during the drought. Targeting artificial rains in the agricultural regions and forests can be also effective for … minimization of drought sequences and reduction the risk of vegetation fires. The basic idea for risk minimization and economic …
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Over the last century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty. However, there is an increasing concern that climate change could slow or possibly even reverse poverty reduction progress. Given the complexities involved in analyzing climate change...
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Over the recent year, humanity has faced natural disasters of unprecedented magnitude and impact. However, governments and international aid organizations do not systematically plan for preventing and mitigating the effects of natural disasters, and macroeconomic scenarios seldom take into...
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Africa. In Kenya, the drought and food crisis affect welfare through two main channels. The first channel is the increased … mortality of livestock in drought-affected areas, which are home to 10 percent of the country’s population. The second channel …
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degradation and drought. This report will enable us to understand the key issues as also the measures undertaken to address the …
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, drought, and government intervention. It also seeks to address the implications of the brain drain in respect of economic …
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Using respective strengths of the biological, physical, and social sciences, we are developing an online decision support tool, the Santa Cruz Watershed Ecosystem Portfolio Model (SCWEPM), to help promote the use of information relevant to water allocation and land management in a binational...
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for, and respond to drought. Some of those efforts are beginning to shift from purely reactive, relief-oriented measures … to programs designed to prevent or to mitigate drought impacts. Considerably less attention has been given to laws that … may affect practices and policies that either increase or decrease drought vulnerability. Water law regimes, drought …
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