High Level Meeting on National Drought Policy: Summary and Major Outcomes

Sivakumar, M. V. K.; Stefanski, Robert; Bazza, M.; Zelaya, Sergio; Wilhite, Donald A.; Magalhães, Albino Verçosa de

doi:10.1016/j.wace.2014.03.007

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“…Most recently, the phenomenon of drought, its intensity, frequency and duration have drawn many concerns around the world (Sivakumar et al, 2014;Peterson et al, 2013). This phenomenon is constantly paid attention rather than a natural phenomenon due to reasons like a constantly growing population, its intangible and long-term impacts, and the duration and severity of damages (Rezaei et al, 2010).…”

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Using Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Investigate Farmers' Perception Consequences of Drought (Case Study: Birjand Township, Iran)

Hosseini¹

2018

Appl. Ecol. Env. Res.

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Abstract. As a natural disaster and inevitable phenomenon, droughts are frequently seen in vast areas of different countries, particularly in areas with hot and dry climates. It has resulted in heavy economic, social, and environmental losses. Undoubtedly, the first step to cope with droughts and their consequences is to have an accurate understanding of droughts and their effects on different aspects by specifying the related strategies and approaches in this regard. Given the importance of this issue, the present study was conducted to investigate how to model farmers' perception of consequences of drought through structural equation modeling in Birjand Township, Iran. All farmer households living in rural areas of Birjand (a city in the Iranian province of Southern Khorasan) composed the statistical population of this study (N=6057). As many as 200 households were chosen for the study by using Bartlett's table. In total, 20 villages were considered as the target districts using stratified random sampling. The results showed that the most important consequences of droughts understood by the farmers are their economic (0.341), environmental (0.261), and social (0.138) consequences. The highest indirect effects on the farmers' perception of consequences of drought in Birjand were: reduced income (0.286), increased bank debts (0.272), reduced purchasing power (0.265), and the wells, aqueducts and springs that have dried (0.224) respectively. In this regard, measures such as supporting the investment and entrepreneurship, granting banking facilities and credits, governmental oversight on water withdrawals from groundwater sources, development of infrastructures and irrigation and water supply networks, reuse of wastewater, identification and promotion of products compatible with saline and unconventional waters, development of support services and social security for rural communities and development and promotion of drought insurance are proposed in order to reduce the consequences of drought.

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Using Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Investigate Farmers' Perception Consequences of Drought (Case Study: Birjand Township, Iran)

Hosseini¹

2018

Appl. Ecol. Env. Res.

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“…Although there has been ongoing discussion regarding the occurrence, trends and uncertainty in the frequency of droughts globally [1][2][3][4], an objective fact is that this phenomenon caused more than half of the deaths associated with natural disasters worldwide during the 20th century and, after floods, was the natural disaster with the second-greatest human impact [5,6]. In fact, according to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction [7], 50.5 million people were affected by drought worldwide in 2015 alone.…”

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“…International concern about the global impact of drought motivated the organization, in 2013, of a High-Level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP), organized in a joint effort by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought (UNCCD), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) [6]. As a result, recommendations from the perspectives of policy and science were developed.…”

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“…As a result, recommendations from the perspectives of policy and science were developed. In the latter case, one of the five key elements through which science can support a national drought management policy consists of "Promoting standard approaches to vulnerability and impact assessment" [9], an issue that is gaining importance in both science and policy-making and has even been classified as an urgent matter [6].…”

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Reconciling Drought Vulnerability Assessment Using a Convergent Approach: Application to Water Security in the Elqui River Basin, North-Central Chile

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Leyton

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Water

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Drought has been, is and most likely will remain one of the most significant socio-natural disasters affecting society and the environment worldwide. One priority objective in the adoption of national drought policies is to promote standardized approaches to vulnerability assessment. To reach this objective, however, there is a need to address the noticeable lack of reconciliation between the two major epistemic frameworks that have been used to determine who is vulnerable and why: the so-called outcome and contextual frameworks. This study presents a novel procedure called the convergent approach to assess drought vulnerability under an integral framework. The procedure has been applied to the study of the vulnerability of water security to drought in water-use sectors in a basin located in north-central Chile. The study is justified by the role that drought plays as the major threat to water security in a context of global water crisis. The results show that the convergent approach outperforms traditional procedures such as those based on composite indicators, showing sound robustness and reaching sufficient levels of reliability and validity. The potential expansion of this approach to other applications, such as those related to global estimations of vulnerability to drought, is also discussed.

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“…Different climatological rainfall characteristics between western and eastern region of South Sulawesi (Setiawan 2007) suspected to be causes treatment for potential drought occurrences impact can't be done using similar way. Recognition about teleconection pattern between Sea Surface Temperature (SST) against the drought is needed to complete the drought monitoring information so that it can be used to make drought prediction (Sivakumar et al, 2014). The influences of ENSO (represented by SST anomaly over Niño 3.4 region) on the rainfall in South Sulawesi are more significant than the influence of Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) (Hidayat et al, 2016).…”

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Utilization of Near Real-Time Noaa-Avhrr Satellite Output for El Niño Induced Drought Analysis in Indonesia (Case Study: El Niño 2015 Induced Drought in South Sulawesi)

Setiawan

Koesmaryono

Faqih

et al. 2017

IJReSES

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High Level Meeting on National Drought Policy: Summary and Major Outcomes

Cited by 76 publications

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Using Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Investigate Farmers' Perception Consequences of Drought (Case Study: Birjand Township, Iran)

Using Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Investigate Farmers' Perception Consequences of Drought (Case Study: Birjand Township, Iran)

Reconciling Drought Vulnerability Assessment Using a Convergent Approach: Application to Water Security in the Elqui River Basin, North-Central Chile

Utilization of Near Real-Time Noaa-Avhrr Satellite Output for El Niño Induced Drought Analysis in Indonesia (Case Study: El Niño 2015 Induced Drought in South Sulawesi)

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