1. Backgrounds and Concepts Drought as a natrual hazard: Concepts and definitions, Donald A. Wilhite 2. Causes and Predictability Prospects for the prediction of meteorological drought, C.F. Ropelewski and C. K. Folland, The application of El Nino-Southern oscillation information to seasonal forecasts in Australia, Neville Nicholls and Grant Beard, Predicting drought in Kenya: Prospects and challenges, L.
A. Ogallo, The prediction of drought in the Brazilian Nordeste: progess and prospects for the future, Paulo Nobre and Iracema F.A. Cavalcanti, Prospects for predicting droughts in the United States, Randall M. Dole, Predictability of drought in China, Wang Shaowu, Ye Jinlan and Qian Weihong, The occurrence and predictability of droughts over Southern Africa, S.J. Mason and P.D.
Tyson, Drought and its predictability in Ethiopia, Tseaye Tadesse 3. Monitoring and Early Warning Techniques Integrated climate monitoring for drought detection, Kelly T. Redmond, Drought Indices: A Review, Richard R. Heim, Jr., Monitoring drought using the standardized precipitation index, Michael Hayes, Mark Svoboda and Donald A. Wilhite, Monitoring the incidence of large-scale droughts in India, H.P. Das, Global drought detection and impact assessment from space, Felix Kogan, Australian climate services for drought management, W.
R. Kininmonth, M.E. Voice, G.S. Beard, G.C. de Hoedt and C.
E. Mullen, Drought monitoring for famine relief in Africa, J.A. Dyer, Drought in the context of the last 1,000+ years: Some surprising implications, Lisa J. Graumlich and Mrill Ingram Impacts and Assessment Methodologies Drought: Pervasive impacts of a creeping phenomenon, Donald A. Wilhite and Olga Vanyarkho, Estimating the economic impacts of drought on agriculture, William Easterling and Robert Mendelsohn, Computing drought severity and forecasting its future impact on grazing in a GIS, J.M. de Jager, M.
D. Howard and H.J.Fouche, An assessment of the drought hazard in Morocco, Will D. Swearingen and Abdellatif Bencherifa, The Economic dimensions of drought in Sub-Saharan Africa, Charlotte Benson and Edward Clay, Canadian Prairie drought impacts and experiences, E.E. Wheaton, The impacts of drought in China: Recent experiences, Kerang Li, Yufeng Chen and Chaoying Huang, Drought in South Africa, with special reference to the 1980-94 period, Coleen Vogel, Mike Laing and Karl Monnik, The drought of 1991-5 in Southern Spain: Analysis, Economic repercussions and response measures, C. Peral Garcia, A.
Mestre Barcelo and J.L. Garcia Merayo, The virgin lands scheme in the former Soviet Union, Igor Zon, Michael H. Glantz and Alvin Rubinstein 5. Adjustment and Adaptation Strategies Effective drought mitigation: Linking micro and macro levels, Susanna Davies, Productive water points as a means of coping with drought, Charles Batchelor, Chris Lovell and Isiah Mharapara, Adjustment and response strategies of local farmers in India, A.R. Subbiah, Adaptation to drought in Mexico, Diana M. Liverman, Agricultural drought managment for sustained agricultural development, A.
S.R.A.S. Sastri, 'She'll be right, mate'. Coping with drought: Strategies old and new in Australia, R.L. Heathcote, Managing supply variability: The use of water banks in the Western United States, Kathleen A.
Miller 6. Drought Management: Mitigation, Preparedness and Policy Preparing for drought: A Methodology, Donald A. Wilhite, From state dependency to self-reliance: Agricultural drought policies and practices in New Zealand, Heather J.K. Haylock and Neil J. Erickson, Approaches to integrated drought risk management: Australia's national drought policy, B. O'Meagher, M. Stafford Smith and D.
H. White, Water supply variability and drought impact and mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ariel Dinar and Andrew Keck, State actions to mitigate drought: Lessons learned, Donald A. Wilhite, Respondng to drought: Common threads from the.