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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spelling okr-10986-338052021-05-25T09:55:31Z Assessing Drought Hazard and Risk : Principles and Implementation Guidance World Bank DROUGHT DROUGHT RISK ASSESSMENT WATER MANAGEMENT FAMINE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT DROUGHT HAZARD DROUGHT MANAGEMENT REFUGEE CAMP SOCIAL PROTECTION HYDROPOWER 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. 2020-05-26T15:46:51Z 2020-05-26T15:46:51Z 2019 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/989851589954985863/Assessing-Drought-Hazard-and-Risk-Principles-and-Implementation-Guidance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33805 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Environmental Study Africa Latin America & Caribbean Colombia Ethiopia Uganda
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topic DROUGHT
DROUGHT RISK ASSESSMENT
WATER MANAGEMENT
FAMINE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
DROUGHT HAZARD
DROUGHT MANAGEMENT
REFUGEE CAMP
SOCIAL PROTECTION
HYDROPOWER
spellingShingle DROUGHT
DROUGHT RISK ASSESSMENT
WATER MANAGEMENT
FAMINE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
DROUGHT HAZARD
DROUGHT MANAGEMENT
REFUGEE CAMP
SOCIAL PROTECTION
HYDROPOWER
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Assessing Drought Hazard and Risk : Principles and Implementation Guidance
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Latin America & Caribbean
Colombia
Ethiopia
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description 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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title Assessing Drought Hazard and Risk : Principles and Implementation Guidance
title_short Assessing Drought Hazard and Risk : Principles and Implementation Guidance
title_full Assessing Drought Hazard and Risk : Principles and Implementation Guidance
title_fullStr Assessing Drought Hazard and Risk : Principles and Implementation Guidance
title_full_unstemmed Assessing Drought Hazard and Risk : Principles and Implementation Guidance
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