The 2007-08 drought affected a large area of New Zealand. This paper describes the analytical framework used to … estimate the associated regional and national economic impacts. Results suggest that calculating drought economic impacts by …

In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in … Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures … than 42% from a “normal” climate to an “extremely drought” climate. Surprisingly, only 2.5% of this effect is channeled …

and indirect consequences of drought events on Iowa’s industries. The report is organized into five sections. Part 1 … and from Iowa by river. Part 3 discusses the consequences of drought on grain and livestock production. Part 4 explores …

All of Iowa’s counties were considered to be in severe drought, and a third were suffering exceptional drought … drought is on-going, it is only possible to infer the kinds of economic damages to be expected, but not the magnitude of those … losses in economic terms.  This report looks at the direct, indirect and other effects that the current drought will have on …

case, the lack of the water. During 1949 and 1955, studies were carried out concerning the damages produced by drought and …

-season agricultural drought. This study aims to assess late-season agricultural drought in cotton- and millet-growing districts of Andhra … drought due to sufficient rainfall and its shorter duration, while cotton crop did not have enough soil moisture during the … critical stage of flowering and boll formation and suffered severe yield loss due to the late-season agricultural drought …

Using monthly meteorological observation data at 633 sites in China during 1961–2012, the drought severity change has …. There is no evidence of an increase in drought severity over China taking the whole country into account. On the contrary …

organisms. This paper, above all, identifies the impact mechanism of drought on the surface water quality of the basin, and then … systematically studies the laws of generation, transfer, transformation and degradation of pollutants during the drought, finding …. Secondly, through employing indoor orthogonality experiments, serving drought degree, rainfall intensity and rainfall duration …