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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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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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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Assessing Drought Hazard and Risk : Principles and Implementation Guidance |
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