Table of Contents
PART I: OVERVIEW
Drought as Hazard: Understanding the Natural and Social Context
Donald A. Wilhite and Roger S. Pulwarty
PART II: DROUGHT RISK REDUCTION, SHIFTING THE PARADIGM FROM MANAGING DISASTERS TO MANAGING RISK
The High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy: A Summary of Outcomes
M.V.K. Sivakumar, Robert Stefanski, Mohamed Bazza, Antonio Magalhaes, Sergio Zelaya Bonilla and Donald Wilhite
Integrated Drought Management Initiatives
Frederik Pischke and Robert Stefanski
National Drought Management Policy Guidelines: A Template for Action
Donald A. Wilhite
Benefits of Action and Costs of Inaction: Drought Mitigation and Preparedness—A Literature Review
Nicolas Gerber and Alisher Mirzabaev
PART III: ADVANCES IN TOOLS FOR DROUGHT PREDICTION, EARLY WARNING, DECISION SUPPORT AND MANAGEMENT
Research to Advance National Drought Monitoring and Prediction Capabilities
Jin Huang; Mark Svoboda, Andy Wood, Siegfried Schubert, Christa Peters-Lidard, Eric Wood, Roger Pulwarty, Annarita Mariotti and Dan Barrie.
Drought Monitoring and Early Warning: New Tools for the 21st Century
Michael J. Hayes, Mark Svoboda, Kelly T. Redmond and Phil Pasteris
Handbook on Drought Indicators and Indices
Mark Svoboda and Brian Fuchs
The Application of Triggers in Drought Management: An Example from Colorado
Taryn Finnessey and Nolan Doesken
Advancements in Satellite Remote Sensing for Drought Monitoring
Brian D. Wardlow, Martha Anderson, Chris Hain, Wade Crow, Jason Otkin, Tsegaye Tadesse and Amir AghaKouchak
Evapotranspiration, Evaporative Demand, and Drought
Mike Hobbins, Daniel McEvoy and Christopher Hain
A Role for Streamflow Forecasting in Managing Risk Associated with Drought and other Water Crises
Susan Cuddy, Rebecca Letcher, Francis H. S. Chiew, Blaire E. Nancarrow and Tony Jakeman
Drought Mitigation: Water Conservation Tools for Short-Term and Permanent Water Savings
Amy Vickers
The Role of Water Harvesting and Supplemental Irrigation in Coping with Water Scarcity and Drought in the Dry Areas
Theib Y. Oweis
PART IV: CASE STUDIES IN INTEGRATED DROUGHT AND WATER MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MANAGEMENT AND POLICY
Floods Punctuated by Drought: A Case Study of Developing a Drought Early Warning System in the Midst of Alternating Extremes
Chad McNutt, Doug Kluck, Dennis Todey, Brian Fuchs, Mark Svoboda and Courtney Black
Managing Drought in Urban Centers: Lessons from Australia
Joanne Chong, Heather Cooley, Mary Ann Dickinson, Andrea Turner and Stuart White
Managing Drought and Water Scarcity in Federal Political Systems
Dustin E. Garrick, Lucia De Stefano and Daniel Connell
Drought Risk Management: Needs and Experiences in Europe
Juergen Vogt, P. Barbosa, C. Carmelo, H. Carrao and Ch. Lavaysse
National Drought Policy in Mexico: A Paradigm Change from Reaction to Prevention
Mario López Pérez, Felipe I. Arreguín Cortés and Oscar F. Ibáñez
Drought Risk Management in the Caribbean Community- Early Warning Information and other Risk Reduction Considerations
Adrian Trotman, Antonio Joyette, Cedric Van Meerbeeck, Roche Mahon, Shelly-Ann Cox, Neisha Cave and David Farrell
Facilitating a Proactive Drought Management and Policy Shift: Recent Lessons from Northeast Brazil
Nathan Engle, Erwin De Nys, and Antonio Magalhães
Droughts and Drought Management in the Czech Republic in a Changing Climate
Miroslav Trnka, Rudolf Brázdil, Adam Vizina, Petr Dobrovolný, Jiří Mikšovský, Petr Štěpánek, Petr Hlavinka, Ladislava Řezníčková and Zdeněk Žalud
Drought Planning and Management in the Iberian Peninsula
Rodrigo Maia and Sergio Vicente Serrano
Establishing the Queensland Drought Mitigation Centre
Roger Stone
PART V: INTEGRATION AND CONCLUSIONS
Drought and Water Crises: Lessons Drawn, Some Lessons Learned, and the Road Ahead
Donald A. Wilhite and Roger S. Pulwarty
Editor(s) Bio
Dr. Donald A. Wilhite is a Professor/Director Emeritus of Applied Climate Science in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A. From 2007 to 2012, Dr. Wilhite served as director of the School of Natural Resources. Previously, Dr. Wilhite was the founding director of the National Drought Mitigation Center in 1995 and the International Drought Information Center in 1989 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Recently elected a Fellow in the American Meteorological Society, his research and outreach activities have focused on issues of drought monitoring, planning, mitigation, and policy, the use of climate information in decision making and climate change. He chaired the International Organizing Committee for the High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy, sponsored by WMO, FAO, and UNCCD, that was held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2013. Dr. Wilhite has served as a consultant to WMO, FAO and the World Bank, among others, and has worked with many countries on drought management and policy issues. He chairs the management and advisory committees of the Integrated Drought Management Program, launched in 2013 by WMO and the Global Water Partnership. Dr. Wilhite has authored or co-authored more than 150 journal articles, monographs, book chapters, and technical reports and has been the recipient of more than $20 million in research grants. Dr. Wilhite is editor or co-editor of numerous books on drought and drought management.
Dr. Roger S. Pulwarty is a Senior Scientist, and the chair of the multi-agency National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) Executive Council, at the NOAA Office of Ocean and Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Pulwarty’s publications focus on weather, climate, and risk management in the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. Throughout his career, Roger has helped develop and lead widely-recognized programs on climate and adaptation, including the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments, NIDIS, and the Mainstreaming Adaptation project in the Caribbean. He is a lead author on UNISDR Global Assessments, on the IPCC Special Reports on Water Resources and Extremes, and a convening lead author on Adaptation in the IPCC Fifth Assessment. Roger has provided testimonies before the U.S. Congress, served on advisory committees of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and acts as an advisor on climate risk management and services to the Western Governors Association, the Organization of American States, USAID, UNDP, UNEP, and the InterAmerican and World Banks, among others. He co-chairs the UN World Meteorological Organization Climate Services Information System, and is member of the Global Climate Observing System Steering Committee. Roger served as co-chair of the White House Working Group on Water, Energy and Food Security, and on the Task Force on Climate and National Security. Roger is Professor-Adjunct at the University of Colorado and the University of the West Indies. He is a recipient of Department of Commerce, Caribbean Academy of Sciences and other awards for integrating research into decision-making.