Managing drought risk in a changing climate: The role of national drought policy

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages 4-13

  Wilhite, Donald A ^a   Sivakumar, Mannava V K ^b   Pulwarty, Roger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Program Office and Earth Systems Research Laboratory ^*  (Switzerland)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought management; Drought planning; Drought policy; Drought preparedness; Early warning systems

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT STRESS; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MITIGATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84902533620     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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