Resilience building and water demand management for drought mitigation

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 28, Issue 20-27, 2003, Pages 869-877

  Rockström, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Drought mitigation; Ecological resilience; Food security; Social resilience; Water demand management

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; HARVESTING; RAIN; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER DEMAND MANAGEMENT;

BUILDINGS;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; DROUGHT; DRYLAND FARMING; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT;

(SOUTHERN); AFRICA;

EID: 0141941100     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2003.08.009     Document Type: Article

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