Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study - Hardcover

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019516234X ISBN 13: 9780195162349

Verlag: OUP USA, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Críticas

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)

Reseña del editor

Accurate monitoring and prediction of agricultural droughts helps manage them, minimize losses attributed to them, and mitigate their extreme forms, which some countries face even today. This book presents the basic concepts of agricultual drought, various remote sensing techniques used to monitor them, and efforts by international organizations to check them.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 019516234X
• ISBN 13: 9780195162349
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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