Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study

by Vijendra K. Boken, Arthur P. Cracknell, Ronald L. Heathcote

Overview

Agricultural droughts affect whole societies, leading to higher food costs, threatened economies, and even famine. In order to mitigate such effects, researchers must first be able to monitor them, and then predict them; however no book currently focuses on accurate monitoring or prediction of these devastating kinds of droughts. To fill this void, the editors of Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought have assembled a team of expert contributors from all continents to make a global study, describing biometeorological models and monitoring methods for agricultural droughts. These models and methods note the relationships between precipitation, soil moisture, and crop yields, using data gathered from conventional and remote sensing techniques. The coverage of the book includes probabilistic models and techniques used in America, Europe and the former USSR, Africa, Asia, and Australia, and it concludes with coverage of climate change and resultant shifts in agricultural productivity, drought early warning systems, and famine mitigation. This will be an essential collection for those who must advise governments or international organizations on the current scope, likelihood, and impact of agricultural droughts.
Sponsored by the World Meterological Organization

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195162349
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/14/2005
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

University of Mississippi

University of Dundee (Emeritus)

Flinders University of South Australia

Table of Contents

Foreword by Secretary-General, World Meteorological OrganizationForward by Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization1. Agricultural Drought and its Monitoring and Prediction: Some Concepts, Vijendra K. Boken2. Drought Related Characteristics of Important Cereal Crops, Keith T. Ingram3. Monitoring Agricultural Drought using El Niño and Southern Oscillation Data, Lino Naranjo Díiaz4. Techniques to Predict Agricultural Droughts, Zekai Şen and Vijendra K. Boken5. Drought Monitoring Using Coarse-Resolution Polar-Orbiting Satellite Data, Assaf Anyamba, Compton J. Tucker, Alfredo R. Huete, and Vijendra K. Boken6. NOAA/AVHRR Satellite Data Based Indices for Monitoring Agricultural Droughts, Felix N. Kogan7. Passive Microwaves Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Regional Drought Monitoring, Thomas J. Jackson8. Active Microwaves Systems for Drought Stress Monitoring, Anne M. Smith, Klaus Scipal, and Wolfgang Wagner9. Drought Monitoring in the United States: Status and Trends, Donald A. Wilhite, Mark D. Svoboda, and Michael J. Hayes10. Agricultural Droughts in North-Central Mexico, J. Alfredo Rodríguez-Pineda, Lorrain Giddings, Héetor Gadsden, and Vijendra K. Boken11. Agricultural Drought Monitoring for the West Indies, A. Anthony Chen, Trevor Falloon, and Michael Taylor12. Agricultural Drought Phenomenon In Latin America With Focus On Brazil, Orivaldo Brunini, Pedro Leite Da Silva Dias, Alice M. Grimm, Eduardo Delgado Assad, and Vijendra K. Boken13. Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Poland, Z. Bochenek, K. Dabrowska-Zielinska, A.Ciolkosz, S. Drupka, and V.K. Boken14. Agricultural Drought Monitoring in Mainland Portugal, Fátima Espírito Santo, Rita Guerreiro, Vanda Cabrinha Pires, Luís E. V. Pessanha, and Isabel M. Gomes15. Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Russia, A. D. Kleschenko, E. K. Zoidze, and V.K. Boken16. Agricultural Drought Monitoring for the Near East, Eddy De Pauw17. Agricultural Droughts in Ethiopia, Engida Mersha and Vijendra K. Boken18. Agricultural Drought Monitoring: The Case of Kenya, L. A. Ogallo, S. B. Otengi, P. Ambenje, W. Nyakwada , and F. Githui19. Drought Monitoring Techniques for Famine Early Warning Systems in Africa, J. Rowland, J. Verdin, A.. Adoum, and G. Senay20. Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Southern Africa, L. S. Unganai and T. Bandason21. Harnessing Radio and Internet Systems to Monitor and Mitigate Agricultural Droughts in Rural African Communities, Marion Pratt, Macol Stewart Cerda, Mohammed Boulahya, and Kelly Sponberg22. Livestock Early Warning System for Africa Rangelands, Jerry W. Stuth, Jay Angerer, Robert Kaitho, Abdi Jama, and Raphael Marambii23. Agricultural Drought Monitoring and Management in India, A.S. Rao and V.K. Boken24. Agricultural Droughts in Bangladesh, Ahsan U. Ahmed, A. Iqbal, and A.M. Choudhury25. A Drought Warning System for Thailand, Apisit Eiumnoh, Rajendra P. Shrestha, and Vijendra K. Boken26. Agricultural Droughts in Indonesia, Rizaldi Boer and A.R. Subbiah27. Agricultural Droughts in Vietnam, Nguyen van Viet and Vijendra K. Boken28. Monitoring Agricultural Droughts in China, Guoliang Tian and Vijendra K. Boken29. Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Australia, K. A. Day, K. G. Rickert, and G. M. McKeon30. Agricultural Drought Monitoring for South Korea, H. Ryong Byun, S. Young Hong, and Vijendra K. Boken31. World Meteorological Organization and Agricultural Droughts, M.V.K. Sivakumar32. Food and Agriculture Organization and Agricultural Drought, Elijah Mukhala33. International Activities Related to Dryland Degradation Assessment and Drought Early Warning, Ashbindu Singh34. Climate Change, Global Warming, and Agricultural Droughts, Gennady V. Menzhulin, Sergey P. Savvateyev, Arthur P. Cracknell, and Vijendra K. Boken

Editorial Reviews

"This book's 34 chapters provide quite a thorough and capable overv0ew of the techniques used to monitor drought in both developed and developing countires.... Monitoring and Prediciting Agricultural Drought has a wealth of information on crops,climate, and drought monintoring techniques for 19 countries and regions of the world."— Bulletin of American Meteorological Society

"Quite simply, drought kills. In an effort to combat it, the international contributors of these 34 papers cover the basic concepts of agricultural drought and its monitoring, prediction and analysis, techniques and examples of remote sensing such as passive and active microwave systems, and case studies from the Americas, Europe, Russia, the Near East, Africa, Asia, and Australia."—SciTech Book News

"The book is well written and edited."—CHOICE

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