Drought -- National Drought Mitigation Center

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1987

Citation

Published in Planning for Drought: Toward a Reduction of Societal Vulnerability, edited by Donald A. Wilhite and William E. Easterling with Deborah A. Wood, pp. 573–583

Comments

Copyright Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987.

Abstract

From the preceding discussions it is clear that in most cases, governments and international organizations have been unable to respond effectively to drought. This inability to respond was recognized by workshop participants as a serious problem of global dimensions that can only be solved through interdisciplinary studies and cooperation between scientists and policy makers.

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