Drought risk assessment: Towards drought early warning system and sustainable environment in western Iran
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F20%3A82264" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/20:82264 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1470160X20302132?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1470160X20302132?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106276" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106276</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Drought risk assessment: Towards drought early warning system and sustainable environment in western Iran
Original language description
Prolonged drought is considered as a creeping natural hazard, which has created a financial burden and unsustainable environment in Iran. Moreover, the effect of drought phenomenon in rural areas is more extensive, causing significant challenges to the rural economy in general and agricultural production in particular. A common strategy to manage drought is based on crisis management (ex-ante). However, for effective drought management, risk management seems to be more in line with drought early warning systems. This quantitative study used risk assessment, which is the function of two elements such as hazard (SPI and SDI indices) and vulnerability (exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity). This study aims to build the foundations for drought early warning systems in limited resource areas such as Kermanshah Township in the northwestern part of Iran. The population of this study comprised of wheat farmers in which 293 farmers were selected using multistage cluster sampling method. In the next st
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
ISSN
1470-160X
e-ISSN
1872-7034
Volume of the periodical
2020
Issue of the periodical within the volume
114
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
1-12
UT code for WoS article
000559966500006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85082828165