TY - GEN AU - Rossi,Giuseppe AU - Vega,Teodoro AU - Bonaccorso,Brunella TI - Methods and tools for drought analysis and management T2 - Water science and technology library SN - 9781402059230 U1 - 551.5773 23 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Springer KW - Drought forecasting. KW - Droughts KW - Risk assessment. KW - Environmental monitoring N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Drought monitoring and forecasting. 1. Drought monitoring and forecasting at large scale / I. Bordi and A. Sutera -- 2. Monitoring and forecasting drought on a regional scale : Emilia-Romagna region / C. Cacciamani [and others] -- 3. Development of the Piedmont Region Hydrological Bulletin as a support to water resources monitoring and management / C. Ronchi [and others] -- 4. Is drought occurrence and severity increasing due to climate change? Analysing drought class transitions with loglinear models / E.E. Moreira, A.A. Paulo and L.S. Pereira -- 5. Stochastic forecasting of drought indices / A. Cancelliere [and others] -- Part II. Drought description through agrometeorological indices. 6. Use of a new agricultural drought index within a regional drought observatory / A. Matera [and others] -- 7. Distributed estimation of actual evapotranspiration through remote sensing techniques / G. Calcagno [and others] -- 8. Testing a modification of the Palmer drought severity index for Mediterranean environments / L.S. Pereira, R.D. Rosa and A.A. Paulo -- 9. Regional drought identification and assessment : case study in Crete / G. Tsakiris [and others] -- Part III. Water resources management under drought conditions. 10. Drought management decision support system by means of risk analysis models / J. Andreu [and others] -- 11. Mixed simulation-optimization technique for complex water resource system analysis under drought conditions / G.M. Sechi and A. Sulis -- 12. Reservoirs water-quality characterization for optimization modelling under drought conditions part I : reservoirs trophic state characterization / B. Begliutti [and others] -- 13. Reservoirs water-quality characterization for optimization modelling under drought conditions part II : water-quality optimization modelling / G.M. Sechi and A. Sulis -- Part IV. Monitoring and management of groundwater under drought conditions. 14. Methods and tools for groundwater monitoring aimed at the water resources management under drought conditions / V. Ferrara -- 15. Study and monitoring of salt water intrusion in the coastal area between Mazara del Vallo and Marsala (South-Western Sicily) / P. Cosentino [and others] -- Part V. Drought impacts and mitigation measures. 16. Guidelines for planning and implementing drought mitigation measures / G. Rossi, L. Castiglione and B. Bonaccorso -- 17. Drought impacts in agriculture : water conservation and water saving practices and management / L.S. Pereira -- 18. Assessment of water shortage in urban areas / C. Bragalli, G. Freni and G. La Loggia -- 19. Drought risk in agriculture in Mediterranean regions : case study eastern Crete / G. Tsakiris and D. Tigkas N2 - Frequent drought events have recently occurred in different Mediterranean regions. These have highlighted a general inadequacy of the current strategies applied to mitigate negative impacts of such phenomenon. This book provides various methods of drought monitoring at different spatial scales, as well as innovative drought forecasting techniques based on stochastic approaches. Besides common drought indices (i.e. SPI), new agrometeorological indices are proposed ER -