Drought is a recurrent natural hazard that is expected to increase in the future due to anthropogenic climate change …. The Middle East region witnessed a drought period between 2007 and 2009 that has been reported to have severe consequences … the drought in the Duhok Governorate in northern Iraq, focusing on meteorological, agricultural and socioeconomic drought …

like Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Shanxi and Yunnan are serious affected areas of drought …

Agro-meteorological hazards such as drought, waterlogging and cool summer occur with very high frequency and affect … to quantitatively analyze the relationships between the fluctuation of maize yield and drought, waterlogging and cool … employed to analyze and quantify relationships between the fluctuation of maize yield and drought, waterlogging and cool summer …

1900 to 2011, the major disaster types include drought, earthquake, epidemic, extreme temperature, flood, mass movement wet …

Regional newspaper coverage from 1998 to 2007 is examined to expand our understanding of the complexity of drought … impacts and vulnerability in the Carolinas. Coverage at the height of two droughts reports drought effects extending beyond … interacting stresses in some sectors contributing to the severity of impacts experienced. An elaborated understanding of drought …

Precipitation Index is used to evaluate the changes in the drought event frequency. The relationships with larger scale changes are … summer drought events increased. There are some signs of a shift of the Hungarian summer climate towards a Mediterranean like …

transfer projects, is the most effective adaptation to climate change, drought and flooding, as well as food security. This …

This paper explores the value of triggers and declarations in the management of drought, bringing together two … complexity of the development and use of triggers in drought risk management by drawing on the experience of the United States …, which has the most sophisticated system of drought triggers in the world, and that of Australia that has the most developed …

. In this light, this study assesses the adaptive capacity of farmers along with institutions to develop suitable drought … adaptation policy in the context of this region. The drought adaptive practices developed in this study are mainly adopted from …, vegetable gardening and community health care service would be helpful in enhancing drought resilience at community level …

change of drought and flood. Based on the observational data of drought and flood from 1950 to 2009 and the precipitation … from 1961 to 2010, using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) method, the evolutionary characteristic of drought and … flood was analyzed. The results showed that drought and flood occurred frequently, simultaneous occurrences of drought and …