Drought E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Hydrometeorological Extreme Events
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 524

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Comprehensive coverage of understanding, prevention, and risk management of extreme drought events, with examples of approaches followed in water-stressed regions

This book describes the progress made in our understanding of severe drought and explains how we can deal with—and even avoid—complete devastation brought on by such punishing events. It brings forward advanced knowledge on drought hazard analysis and management, particularly from EU-funded research projects, to assist in the development of the corresponding drought management plans. In addition, this book addresses issues of social vulnerability to drought and science-policy interfaces, which are important elements of drought management.

Divided into three sections, this book covers the diagnosis of physical processes, historic drought and the trends in historic drought, and perspectives of future drought. It takes an academic approach to risk evaluation, including characterization of drought episodes, development of indicators of risk in hydrological and agricultural systems, and analysis of the role of socio-economic instruments for risk mitigation. It also discusses the interactions that have resulted in the complex institutional framework, and highlights the importance of stakeholder involvement and awareness building for successful drought management. In addition, Drought: Science and Policy features a collection of case studies that include the description of effective measures taken in the past. 

• Addresses the growing issue of drought preparedness planning, monitoring, and mitigation
• Teaches methodologies and lessons focused on specific, drought-prone regions so the applications have more significance
• Provides examples of approaches followed in water-stressed regions (river basin and national scale) with drought analyses at the pan-European scale

Drought: Science and Policy will be an invaluable reference for researchers and practitioners in the field as well as Masters students taking relevant courses in drought management and natural disaster management.

Leseprobe

Titles in the Series

Hydrometeorological Hazards: Interfacing Science and Policy

Edited by Philippe Quevauviller

Coastal Storms: Processes and Impacts

Edited by Paolo Ciavola and Giovanni Coco

Drought: Science and Policy

Edited by Ana Iglesias, Dionysis Assimacopoulos, and Henny A.J. Van Lanen

Forthcoming Titles

Flash Floods Early Warning Systems: Policy and Practice

Edited by Daniel Sempere‐Torres

Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events: A Governance Issue

Edited by Isabelle La Jeunesse and Corinne Larrue

Drought

Science and Policys

Edited by

Ana Iglesias

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Madrid, Spain

Dionysis Assimacopoulos

National Technical University of Athens

Athens, Greece

Henny A.J. Van Lanen

Wageningen University

Wageningen, The Netherlands

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This edition first published 2019

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication DataNames: Iglesias, Ana, editor. | Assimacopoulos, Dionysis, 1950‐ editor. |Lanen, Henny A. J. Van, 1952‐ editor.Title: Drought : science and policy / edited by Dr. Ana Iglesias, ProfessorDionysis Assimacopoulos, Dr. Henny A. Van Lanen.Description: First edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018. |Series: Hydrometeorological extreme events | Includes index. |Identifiers: LCCN 2018015076 (print) | LCCN 2018029390 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119017219 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119017172 (epub) | ISBN 9781119017202(cloth)Subjects: LCSH: Droughts.Classification: LCC QC929.24 (ebook) | LCC QC929.24 .D768 2018 (print) | DDC363.34/929‐‐dc23LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015076

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Series Preface

The rising frequency and severity of hydrometeorological extreme events have been reported in many studies and surveys, including the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. This report and other sources highlight the increasing probability that these events are partly driven by climate change, while other causes are linked to the increased exposure and vulnerability of societies in exposed areas (which are not only due to climate change but also to mismanagement of risks and ‘lost memories’ about them). Efforts are ongoing to enhance today’s forecasting, prediction and early warning capabilities in order to improve the assessment of vulnerability and risks and to develop adequate prevention, mitigation and preparedness measures.

This book series, titled ‘Hydrometeorological Extreme Events’, has the ambition to gather available knowledge in this area, taking stock of research and policy developments at the international level. While individual publications exist on specific hazards, the proposed series is the first of its kind to propose an enlarged coverage of various extreme events that are generally studied by different (not necessarily interconnected) research teams.

The series comprises several volumes dealing with the various aspects of hydrometeorological extreme events, primarily discussing science–policy interfacing issues, and developing specific discussions about floods, coastal storms (including storm surges), droughts, resilience and adaptation, and governance. While the books examine the crisis management cycle as a whole, the focus of the discussions is generally oriented towards the knowledge base of the different events; prevention and preparedness; and improved early warning and prediction systems.

The involvement of internationally renowned scientists (from different horizons and disciplines) behind the knowledge base of hydrometeorological events makes this series unique in this respect. The overall series will provide a multidisciplinary description of various scientific and policy features concerning hydrometeorological extreme events, as written by authors from different countries, making it a truly international book series.

Following a first volume introducing the series and a second volume on coastal storms, the ‘drought’ volume is the third book of this series. This book has been written by renowned experts in the field, covering various horizons and (policy and scientific) views. It offers the reader an overview of scientific knowledge about droughts (understanding the natural hazard, vulnerability, risks and policy, and management experiences). The forthcoming volumes of the series will focus on floods, governance and climate and health aspects.

Philippe Quevauviller

Series Editor

The Series Editor – Philippe Quevauviller

Philippe Quevauviller began his research career in 1983 at the University of Bordeaux I, France, studying lake geochemistry. Between 1984 and 1987, he was associate researcher in the Institut de Géologie du Bassin d'Aquitaine, in the framework of a scientific cooperation between the office of the Portuguese Environment State Secretary and the University of Bordeaux I. Here, he performed a multidisciplinary study (sedimentology, geomorphology, and geochemistry) of the coastal environment of the Galé coastline and the Sado Estuary, which was the topic of his PhD in oceanography at the University of Bordeaux I in 1987. In 1988, he became associate researcher in the framework of a contract between the University of Bordeaux I and the Dutch Ministry for Public Works (Rijkswaterstaat), in which he investigated the organotin contamination levels in Dutch coastal environments and waterways. For this research work, he was awarded a PhD in chemistry from the University of Bordeaux I in 1990. From 1989 to 2002, he worked at the European Commission (EC) Directorate‐General for Research in Brussels, where he managed various research and technological development (RTD) projects in the field of quality assurance, analytical method development, and pre‐normative research for environmental analyses in the framework of the EC Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme. In 1999, he obtained an HDR (habilitation à diriger des recherches) in chemistry from the University of Pau, France, for a study of the quality assurance of chemical species’ determination in the environment.

In 2002, he left the research arena to move to the policy sector at the EC Directorate‐General for Environment, where he developed a new EU directive on groundwater protection against pollution, and chaired European science–policy expert groups on groundwater and chemical monitoring in support of implementing the EU Water Framework Directive. He moved back to the EC Directorate‐General for Research and Innovation in 2008, where he functioned as a research programme officer and managed research projects about climate change impacts on the aquatic environment and on hydrometeorological hazards, while ensuring strong links with policy networks. In April 2013, he moved to another area of work – security research – at the EC Directorate‐General for Enterprise and Industry, and then at EC Direction‐General for Migration and Home Affairs, where he is a research programming and policy officer in the fields of crisis management and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) risk mitigation.

Besides his EC career, Philippe Quevauviller has also remained active in the academic and scientific realms. He is associate professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and is a promoter of a master’s thesis in the Interuniversity Programme on Water Resource Engineering (IUPWARE), which is a collaboration between Vrije Universiteit Brussel and KU Leuven. It is under this role that he is functioning as the series editor of this ‘Hydrometeorological Extreme Events’ series for Wiley. He also teaches integrated water management issues and their links to EU water science and policies to students of the ‘Master EuroAquae – Erasmus Mundus’ programme at the Polytech Nice‐Sophia (University of Nice‐Sophia Antipolis, France).

Philippe Quevauviller has authored and co‐authored more than 220 scientific and policy publications internationally, in addition to 54 book chapters, 80 reports, and six books. He has functioned as the editor and co‐editor for 26 special issues of scientific journals and 15 books. He also coordinated a book series for Wiley titled ‘Water Quality Measurements’, which resulted in 10 books published between 2000 and 2011.

List of Contributors

Vanda Acácio

Centro de Ecologia Aplicada “Prof. Baeta Neves” (CEABN), Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Joaquin Andreu

Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Ingenieria del Agua y Medio Ambiente, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain

Victor Asenjo

GIS and Environmental Sciences Consultant, Spain

Dionysis Assimacopoulos

National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Paulo Barbosa

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy

María D. Bejarano

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Paola Bianucci

AQUATEC (Suez Group), Dep. Basin Management, Madrid, Spain

María Bielza

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Carlo Bifulco

Centro de Ecologia Aplicada “Prof. Baeta Neves” (CEABN), Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Hugo Carrão

Space4Environment, Niederanven, Luxemburg

Susana Dias

Centro de Ecologia Aplicada “Prof. Baeta Neves” (CEABN), Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Emmanuel Garnier

French National Centre for Scientific Research, Besancon, France

Luis Garrote

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Alberto Garrido

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Alfredo Granados

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Jamie Hannaford

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom

David Haro

School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Ana Iglesias

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Eleni Kampragou

Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy, Athens, Greece

Teresa Maestro

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Antonio Massarutto

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università di Udine, Udine, Italy

Dario Musolino

Università Bocconi – Centro di Economia Regionale, dei Trasporti e del Turismo, Milan, Italy

Gustavo Naumann

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy

Javier Paredes

Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Ingenieria del Agua y Medio Ambiente, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain

Christel Prudhomme

European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom

Francisco Rego

Centro de Ecologia Aplicada “Prof. Baeta Neves” (CEABN), Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Alvaro Sordo‐Ward

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Abel Solera

Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Ingenieria del Agua y Medio Ambiente, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain

Kerstin Stahl

University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Lena M. Tallaksen

University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Marjolein H.J. Van Huijgevoort

KWR Watercycle Research Institute, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

Henny A.J. Van Lanen

Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Anne F. Van Loon

University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Francien van Luijn

Rijkswaterstaat Water, Traffic and Environment, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Claudia Vezzani

Autorità di Bacino Distrettuale del Fiume Po, Parma, Italy

Niko Wanders

University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Wouter Wolters

Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra), Wageningen, The Netherlands

Part OneUnderstanding Drought as a Natural Hazard