We explore vulnerability to drought in Morocco by analyzing household coping responses to a severe drought. We find … this pattern to motivate a model in which drought shocks induce the reallocation within communities of usufruct rights to …

Coastal Zone of the Western Desert had to cope with a severe 15-year drought combined with major changes in link with tourism …

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 …

combat land degradation and drought in a latitudinal gradient. This study was carried out in Chile, in a latitude gradient … of the different set of the strategies applied to fight against desertification and drought varies in a latitudinal …

Water Scarcity and drought are recurrent phenomena in China. In the context of environmental change, an increasing … tendency in drought frequency and severity is observed in China in recent years. Therefore, it is imperative to take necessary … initiatives to reduce the impacts of drought. In this paper, an attempt is made to identify the best water management strategies …

drought variability at the local scale. We selected three medium-sized catchments on the Catalan littoral: Fluvià, Tordera and … Siurana. We employed both instrumental and simulated temperature and rainfall data to calculate two multi-scalar drought … calculated 24-month SPI and SPEI values for the instrumental and simulated periods, and no changes were found in drought …

found drought was the most common disaster with a frequency of 49 %, followed by chilling injures (19.46 %). The frequency … northeastern China, drought in northern and western China, and rainstorms in southwestern China. Our study highlighted that the …

water supply during prolonged and severe droughts, assessing drought risk becomes one of the key tasks of water …-resources planning and management in Taiwan. Well-prepared drought mitigation measures require assimilation of physical environment of … droughts and human socioeconomic factors. An index-based approach is presented in this study to evaluate drought risk at …

Drought has become a recurrent phenomenon in Turkey in the last few decades. Significant drought conditions were …) method was used to detail geographical variations in the drought vulnerability based on frequency and severity of drought … varying drought categories to determine least amount of rainfall required to avoid from drought initiation. The study found …