Coping with Drought and Flooding
Author | : Kimberly Alicia Bryan |
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Release | : 2017 |
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Author | : Kimberly Alicia Bryan |
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Release | : 2017 |
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Author | : Chris C. Funk |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2021-05-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1108839878 |
The latest science and compelling stories describing the impacts of droughts, floods, and fires in the context of climate change.
Author | : Roland Azibo Balgah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Science |
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Floods and droughts,Äîthe most frequent water-related hazards are negatively impacting livelihoods across the world, particularly in Sub-Saharan African countries, where poverty remains endemic. Naturally, victims adopt different coping strategies against burgeoning hydro-meteorological hazards. Contemporary research on determinants for coping decisions in SSA has been largely driven by isolated case studies, of little relevance for broad-based policy making. We analyze the determinants for coping with floods and droughts across multiple geo-ecological zones in Cameroon. Quantitative data primarily obtained from 2024 flood and drought household victims in the Western Highlands and Sudano-Sahelian Upland geo-ecological zones are analyzed alongside qualitative data obtained through 31 FGDs and 99 IDIs using descriptive statistics and regression analysis in MS Excel 2013 and SPSS 20 for the questionnaires and content analysis in Nvivo 11 for the unstructured interviews. Results reveal government policy, socio-cultural, economic and educational factors, and hazard experience as major shapers of coping decisions, irrespective of hazard type, timing and geo-ecology (P¬†=¬†0.05). In contrast to the state-of-the-art, we observed livelihoods improvement after some hazardous events. The policy implications for long-term coping and resilience building are then discussed.
Author | : Bosongo G Bola |
Publisher | : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2014-12-16 |
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ISBN | : 9783659637049 |
In view of the developing issue of climate change, floods and droughts may become more frequent. Climate change therefore has the potential to increase the frequency of extreme events in many regions by increasing flood risk in some regions of the world, increasing drought risk in others, and even increasing the occurrence of both floods and droughts in some areas such as middle Zambezi valley. Households that rely on agriculture in such fragile environments are particularly vulnerable to droughts and floods. Over time they have evolved certain coping mechanisms to reduce droughts and floods vulnerability. This book focuses on the impacts and coping mechanisms of the local communities to droughts and floods in the particular case of Kanyemba, a rural ward in middle Zambezi valley. Major issues affecting communities' livelihood are related to frequent floods and droughts. The impacts of floods and droughts in Kanyemba are threatening households' livelihood. Households have responded to these impacts through a number of coping mechanisms but limited resources constrain the capacity of community to counter floods and droughts impacts.
Author | : Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) |
Publisher | : IWA Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781780408132 |
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events, notably of droughts and floods to which the agriculture sector is particularly exposed. While agricultural productivity growth and policy development have allowed to better cope with these risks and reduce overall impacts on the sector and commodity markets, there is substantial room to improve policy responses and co-ordinate across policy domains, including with respect to water rights and allocation, weather and hydrological information, innovation and education, and insurance and compensation schemes. Indeed, drought and flood risks are likely to become a major policy concern as increasing population will increase the demand for food, feed, fibre, and energy, not to mention the competition for water resources, and urbanisation will increase the demand for flood protection and mitigation, raising the issue of the allocation of flood risks across sectors and areas.
Author | : Cecilia Tortajada |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2020-05-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0429683545 |
This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods in the short-, medium-, and long-term. There are discussions on how cities prepare for, cope with, learn from, manage, and recover from these extreme events. The chapters also consider aspects such as changing paradigms, policy responses under uncertainty, scenario development, institutional responses, adaptive forecasting, governance perspectives, infrastructure development, overall investments, and technological innovation. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction are discussed at length. Most of the cities and regions studied are in Asia, however, cities from Oceania, Europe, Africa, and North America are also included. Analyses are not limited to cities but to the basins and regions from which urban populations obtain their resources, and on which their resilience depends. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
Author | : Huan Wu |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1119427215 |
Recent advances in the modeling and remote sensing of droughts and floods Droughts and floods are causing increasing damage worldwide, often with devastating short- and long-term impacts on human society. Forecasting when they will occur, monitoring them as they develop, and learning from the past to improve disaster management is vital. Global Drought and Flood: Observation, Modeling, and Prediction presents recent advances in the modeling and remote sensing of droughts and floods. It also describes the techniques and products currently available and how they are being used in practice. Volume highlights include: Remote sensing approaches for mapping droughts and floods Physical and statistical models for monitoring and forecasting hydrologic hazards Features of various drought and flood systems and products Use by governments, humanitarian, and development stakeholders in recent disaster cases Improving the collaboration between hazard information provision and end users The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals.
Author | : Vujica M. Yevjevich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Nature |
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Author | : Jonathan Barnett |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2022-07-14 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1642832006 |
Natural disasters from heat waves to coastal and river flooding will inevitably become worse because of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere. Managing them is possible, but planners, designers, and policymakers need to advance adaptation and preventative measures now. Managing the Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought and Wildfire by design and planning experts Jonathan Barnett and Matthijs Bouw is a practical guide to addressing this urgent national security problem. Barnett and Bouw draw from the latest scientific findings and include many recent, real-world examples to illustrate how to manage seven climate-related threats: flooding along coastlines, river flooding, flash floods from extreme rain events, drought, wildfire, long periods of high heat, and food shortages.
Author | : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9251099006 |
The eastern Africa sub-region has experienced recurrent drought and other climate-related impacts, with damaging effects on agriculture, food security and development. This report discusses institutional improvements for addressing disaster risks and presents options to strengthen the climate resilience of the agriculture and food sectors.