Drought management

Effective drought management rests on three pillars: monitoring and early warning; vulnerability and impact assessment; and mitigation, preparedness, and response. (Funk and Shukla 2020)
 

 

Sources

Funk, Chris, and Shraddhanand Shukla. 2020. “Tools of the Trade 3—Mapping Exposure and Vulnerability.” In Drought Early Warning and Forecasting, 83–99. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814011-6.00006-3.
 

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