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Abstracts for '1st international drought symposium and workshops'
Drought mitigating nature-based solutions: a critical state-of-the-art review at global a…

Natural disasters are creating a major collapse in human existence. Among the many, drought is becoming more frequent and intense. Therefore, mitigation/adaptation measures have to be set t… - Estifanos Addisu Yimer

Quantifying stream flows and groundwater response under the climate and land use change t…

Nagavali is one of the important east flowing river basins, providing a water source for more than 5 million people for various applications in two south Indian states namely Orissa and And… - Surinaidu Lagudu

Microclimatic effects of the Great Green Wall Initiative: Impacts of Afforestation on Eva…

Increasing temperatures and growing anthropogenic impacts have caused changes in global and local weather systems that led to prolonged periods of drought in the Sahel region. To prevent po… - Mariam Idowu

The climate change a perceptible reality in the semi-arid zone of Tebessa: highlighting m…

The work carried out relates to the variations of the precipitations recorded at the level of the station of Tébessa. The observations made relate to a series of one hundred years. The aver… - Larbi Djabri

Development of pedotransfer functions to estimate some of soil hydraulic properties in Mo…

Soil hydraulic properties are an important factor to manage irrigation for a given crop, and to mitigate the effect of drought in arid and semiarid regions. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) pr… - Adnane Beniaich

Hydro-climatic variability and change in the Ferlo catchment (Senegal)

As one of the poorest areas, West Africa is undoubtedly the region that will suffer the most from the impacts of climate change, due in particular to its economic situation, its strong demo… - Assane Ndiaye

Monitoring drought using cosmic ray neutron sensor's soil moisture measurement based soil…

Lack of archived temporally continuous and spatially representative measurement is a bottleneck in soil moisture drought monitoring using anomaly-based drought indicators for local stakehol… - Adane Irkiso

Groundwater conservation and flood hazard mitigation with adjustable weirs in agricultura…

Lise Piepers, Jan Diels, Marijke Huysmans, and Jos Van Orshoven. Like many other regions in Europe, Flanders is forced to take action against water scarcity and more frequent droughts. I… - Lise Piepers

The impact of climate change on droughts in Central Asia assessed using regional climate …

Climate change is expected to aggravate the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as droughts but impacts are found to strongly vary per region. For different reasons the r… - Bert Van Schaeybroeck

The effect of drought on water quality in Dender river catchment, Belgium

The effect of drought on water quality in Dender river catchment, Belgium Tameremariyam Dawit Belachew, Estifanos Addisu Yimer, Jiri Nossent, Ann Van Griesven Abstract Climate chan… - Tameremariyam Belachew

Climate Change Impacts on Hydrology and Droughts in the Rift Valley Lakes Basin, Southern…

This study assesses climate change impacts on hydrology and drought characteristics in the Ethiopian Rift Valley Lakes Basin (RVLB) for near future (2021–2050) and far future (2071–2100) pe… - Yoseph Arba Orke

Assessment of the hydrological drought risk in Lithuanian sub-basins

Hydrological drought is becoming an increasingly prevalent issue in our modern world, with climate change and human activities exacerbating the frequency and severity of these events, and i… - Serhii Nazarenko

Future water scarcity in the Adige river basin with climate change and receding glacier v…

Water scarcity events are impacting large parts of Europe considering both upstream mountainous regions and downstream areas. These conditions are arising as a combination of reduced winter… - Susen Shrestha