Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study

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

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019516234X
• ISBN13: 9780195162349
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"