Tools for Drought Mitigation in Mediterranean Regions: v. 44 (Water Science and Technology Library) - Hardcover

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9781402011405: Tools for Drought Mitigation in Mediterranean Regions: v. 44 (Water Science and Technology Library)

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An integrated approach to drought mitigation in Mediterranean Regions.- Irrigation demand management to cope with drought and water scarcity.- At-site and regional drought identification by REDIM model.- Analysis of local and regional droughts in southern Portugal using the theory of runs and the Standardised Precipitation Index.- Local and regional droughts in Siliana catchment, Tunisia.- Drought identification and characterisation in Jordan.- Droughts in Sicily and comparison of identified droughts in Mediterranean regions.- Regionalisation and identification of droughts in Mediterranean countries of Europe.- Requisites for a Drought Watch System.- Irrigation scheduling simulation: the model ISAREG.- Coping with drought: deficit irrigation strategies for cereals and field horticultural crops in central Tunisia.- Feasibility of deficit irrigation with center-pivot to cope with limited water supplies in Alentejo, Portugal.- Irrigation scheduling simulation for citrus in Sicily to cope with water scarcity.- Irrigation management dynamics in the Jordan valley under drought conditions.- Simulation of supplemental irrigation strategies for wheat in Near East to cope with water scarcity.- Derivation of operation rules for an irrigation water supply system by multiple linear regression and neural networks.- Optimisation of reservoir management in the semi-arid countries: case of Lakhmess, Tunisia.- Decision support system for the evaluation of droughts and drought mitigation measures.- Long-term and short-term measures for coping with drought.- Appendix: Report and recommendations of the Expert Consultation and Workshop on Drought Mitigation for the Near East and the Mediterranean (Aleppo, May 27-31, 2001).- List of contributors.

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The increasing risk of severe droughts and water shortages emphasizes the need for an integrated approach to drought mitigation. However, effective tools for the implementation of such an approach have not been available till now. This book contributes to an improved preparedness for drought in water supply systems, providing tools useful for a better decision making process in drought management. It presents methods and software features of a Decision Support System (DSS) developed within a European research project and consists of three main parts. The first part deals with the advanced techniques for hydrological drought identification and monitoring; the second analyses the successful use of climate-crop-soil models in defining deficit irrigation strategies; the third provides tools for improving the operation of irrigation supply reservoirs. All methods are embedded in a user-friendly DSS package that has been applied in several Case Studies of Mediterranean countries (Portugal, Italy, Tunisia, Jordan and Syria) and whose results are also compared.

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ISBN 10:  9401039658 ISBN 13:  9789401039659
Verlag: Springer, 2012
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