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Applied Drought Modelling, Prediction, and Mitigation provides a practical guide to new and recent methodologies for drought characterizations, change modeling, down-scaling, and future predictions. The modeling procedures covered by the book include recent advancements in regio…
"Documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty thousand years, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources."--Back cover. "The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of th…
Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts on the U.S. southern plains. Reinte…
Many of the effects of global warming, changing temperature and rainfall patterns, have been recognized as climate change factors affecting agriculture, and these climate trends are expected to adversely affect crops in most agricultural regions in coming decades and be only par…
This book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of plant responses to drought stress. The following major aspects are covered in the book: Morphological and anatomical adaptations ; Physiological responses ; Biochemical and molecular responses ; Ecophysiological respo…
"This book provides a timely update on the recent progress in our knowledge of all aspects of plant's perception, signalling and adaptation to a variety of environmental stresses such as drought, salinity, heat, cold, frost and soil pH extremes, Al and heavy metal toxicities, de…
Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world. Together with an increased demand for water resources to supply the world's growing population, it represents a potentially disastrous threat to water supplies, agriculture and food produc…
Climate change, vulnerability and migration
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"This book puts forward a new framework for evaluating the climate-conflict hypothesis that examines the interactions between environmental, economic, and sociopolitical factors at the roots of the Syrian uprising (2011). The Human-Environmental-Climate Security (HECS) framework…
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Migration is a basic adaptation method to inhospitable environments and has large economic consequences for the migrants themselves and for the economy as a whole. I create new datasets using individual-level census data and county-level drought conditions to study how the worst…
Located on the Taraco Peninsula on the shores of Lake Titicaca in the Bolivian Altiplano, Alto Pukara was a Middle Formative site inhabited between 400 and 800 BCE by the Chiripa peoples. Alto Pukara is the smallest site on the peninsula centered around its own platform chamber …
The Wasatch Front is an environmentally complex region, this area of northern Utah is mountainous and fertile enough to support a varied ecology. It has also supported healthy human populations. The marshy lands surrounding the gigantic lake antecedent to Great Salt Lake and Uta…
Drought stress has had devastating effects for vegetable growers world-wide, leading to much recent research focusing on the development of drought-resilient crops. The importance of the rhizosphere microbiome in plant performance under drought stress is under development, inclu…