Cook Drought

An Interdisciplinary Perspective
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54890-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Hydrologie, Hydrogeologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.