Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study - Hardcover

Boken, Vijendra K.; Cracknell, Arthur P.; Heathcote, Ronald L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019516234X ISBN 13: 9780195162349

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Agricultural droughts affect whole societies, leading to higher food costs, threatened economies, and even famine. In order to mitigate such effects, researchers must first be able to monitor them, and then predict them; however no book currently focuses on accurate monitoring or prediction of these devastating kinds of droughts. To fill this void, the editors of Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought have assembled a team of expert contributors from all continents to make a global study, describing biometeorological models and monitoring methods for agricultural droughts. These models and methods note the relationships between precipitation, soil moisture, and crop yields, using data gathered from conventional and remote sensing techniques. The coverage of the book includes probabilistic models and techniques used in America, Europe and the former USSR, Africa, Asia, and Australia, and it concludes with coverage of climate change and resultant shifts in agricultural productivity, drought early warning systems, and famine mitigation. This will be an essential collection for those who must advise governments or international organizations on the current scope, likelihood, and impact of agricultural droughts.
Sponsored by the World Meterological Organization

About this title

About the Author

Vijendra K. Boken is at University of Mississippi. Arthur P. Cracknell is at University of Dundee (Emeritus).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019516234X
• ISBN 13: 9780195162349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496