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attainment partly because these communities can better secure government financial aid for flood and drought affected areas …
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Droughts are a recurring feature of UK climate. This paper asks what drought and water scarcity management options are … groups or overarching water governance issues. This new typology helps identifying weaknesses in current drought and water … and that the currently applied options focus on restricting water use in times of drought but focus less on preventing …
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We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Using rainfall data going back over a … century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in … that increased drought frequency in the previous decade reduces local value added, employment and wages in the agricultural …
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drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands …
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, unlike recurring droughts, a first-time exposure to a three-month severe drought reduces individuals’ body mass index by 2 …
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Castanhão is a multipurpose reservoir located in the semiarid region of Brazil. From 2012 to 2019, a severe drought … availability of water quality data during drought periods has created a knowledge gap regarding the understanding of water quality … water quality in the Castanhão reservoir during a hydrological drought, with the objective of providing scientifically sound …
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To accurately simulate the Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and evaluate the impact of drought on GPP at a regional ….05) from 2011—2020. SPI can well monitor the occurrence of drought in the Liulin watershed, and SPI showed an increasing trend … GPP showed a significant increasing trend, the time lag and cumulative effects indicate that drought has a long …
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Quantifying drought’s economic impacts has been key for decision-making to build future strategies and improve the … development and implementation of proactive plans. However, climate change is changing drought frequency, intensity, and … losses for water users. Though the longer the drought lasts, other factors also play a crucial role in its economic outcomes …
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The severe drought in California (2012-2016) generated significant public and government concern. State and local … water waste, mainly from landscape irrigation. During the drought of 2012-2016, median runoff flows were significantly …
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How people react to their peers’ difficulties tells us a lot, just recall the proverb “friend in need is a friend indeed” which is very popular in many countries. In this paper, we would like to investigate banks’ reaction to natural disasters, especially droughts which are very common...
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