Drought : a global assessment.

Includes bibliographical references

The aim of this book is to provide the scientific and policy community with information in the form of new technologies and methodologies, as well as lessons learned, that will help nations define a new paradigm for drought planning and management in the 21st Century. The overview chapters and case studies included in this book provide information to scientists, policy makers, and planners that, if implemented, can reduce the devastation of drought through improved prediction and monitoring techniques, mitigation programs and policies, and contingency planning. The completion of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction provides a unique opportunity to implement this new paradigm for drought management in the 21st Century