Drought - An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environmental and sustainability studies.

List of contents

Preface
1. Introduction to the Hydrologic Cycle and Drought
2. Global Hydroclimatology
3. Drought in the Climate System
4. Drought and Hydroclimate in the Holocene
5. Climate Change and Drought
6. Case Studies: The Dust Bowl and Sahel Droughts
7. Land Degradation and Desertification
8. Groundwater and Irrigation
Glossary
References
Index

About the author

Benjamin I. Cook is a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. He also teaches on drought and climate science in Columbia’s School of Professional Studies.

Summary

Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environmental and sustainability studies.

Additional text

Water management will indeed be a major resource challenge, and Drought: An Interdisciplinary Perspective does an excellent job of showing why.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Cook, Cook Ben
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780231176897
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17689-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; NATURE / Natural Resources, Climate Change, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Hydrology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, NATURE / Weather, Drought & Water Supply, Drought and water supply, Science; nature