Assessing Drought Hazard and Risk : Principles and Implementation Guidance
Urban areas in drought-prone regions face serious water shortages affecting its citizens, businesses, and industries. The greater frequency of droughts and more erratic nature of rains in many countries, combined with underlying economic, social, a...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/989851589954985863/Assessing-Drought-Hazard-and-Risk-Principles-and-Implementation-Guidance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33805 |
| Summary: | Urban areas in drought-prone regions
face serious water shortages affecting its citizens,
businesses, and industries. The greater frequency of
droughts and more erratic nature of rains in many countries,
combined with underlying economic, social, and environmental
vulnerabilities, result in increasing impacts to at-risk
populations. A first and indispensable step toward adapting
to drought is to undertake a drought risk assessment and
disclose knowledge that focuses both on specific sectors and
users as well on the overall economy. A drought risk
assessment is a formal step toward identifying
vulnerabilities and taking mitigative and adaptive actions
to reduce risk. Drought hazard and risk assessments are
often established for the current climate situation; these
assessments make use of historical datasets of drought
hazards, drought impacts, and information about exposure and
vulnerability to drought. This document provides guidelines
for assessing drought hazard as well as short- and long-term
risks to specific sectors and a country’s overall economy.
This document consists of two main sections. Chapter one
gives introduction. Chapter two presents basis for the
drought guidance. Chapter three describes the key principles
of drought hazard and risk assessments; chapter four
consists of an implementation guideline for drought risk
assessment, providing a step-by-step overview of all
activities that need to be done in order to carry out a
thorough assessment of drought hazard and or risk. Finally,
chapter five presents three examples of the application of
the guidelines. |
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