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in drought prone areas of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra and Kerala with heavy rainfall. Insufficient rains or …
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long time, but the first steps to combat drought took just in the mid twentieth century when there was planted windbreak …
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case, the lack of the water. During 1949 and 1955, studies were carried out concerning the damages produced by drought and …
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This study quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed the impacts of natural disasters, particularly typhoons, floods, and droughts, on agriculture, food security, and the natural resources and environment in the Philippines. It aimed to propose recommendations as to how best to respond to the...
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Key sensitivities to Mediterranean tourism include drought and heatwaves, both of which are likely to increase with …
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current (same fiscal year) drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms’ revenue and profit; this effect is most likely … attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In … general, dairy farmers ‘benefit’ more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …
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This study investigates the effect of drought on economic activity globally using remote sensing data. In particular ….25 degree latitude-longitude pixels. I define drought as greenness estimated by lagged variation in monthly rainfall and … temperature. This definition of drought performs well in identifying self-reported drought events since 2000 compared with …
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This paper considers the problem of a water management authority faced with the threat of a drought that hits at an … drought and relying on automatic adjustments through a zero marginal social net benefit condition, iii) an economically … optimal dynamic policy taking account of the threat of a drought. In particular, we show that the optimal pre-drought steady …
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drought on housing prices, residential land prices, and housing rents in Iran. Using data from provinces of Iran from 1993 to … water (reducing the severity of drought) within provinces has a positive effect on property prices. Our results have …
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the years 1985 to 2013. Relying on a meteorological drought index, we show that higher drought exposure is followed by … different. In addition, we identify drought-induced corruption as a phenomenon of countries yielding high per capita income in …
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