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Drought
Drought originates from a deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time, usually a season or more. This deficiency results in a water shortage for some activity, group, or environmental sector. Different from other hazards in that it develops slowly, sometimes over years, and its onset can be masked by a number of factors. Drought can be devastating: water supplies dry up, crops fail to grow, animals die and malnutrition and ill health become widespread. source: WMO
WMO participates in Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
20 May 2013, WMO
WMO has a booth at the Global Platform to showcase initiatives, projects and tools on early warning systems and disaster risk reduction. Throughout the Global Platform, senior WMO experts will take part in high-level meetings, plenaries, and feature events...
- 7th International conference on river basin management22-24 May 2013, United Kingdom (Ashurst, Southampton)
- 7th International conference on river basin management22-24 May 2013, United Kingdom (Southampton)
- Managing drought risk on the ranch 201329 May 2013, United States of America (Nebraska)
- International diploma in disaster managementINTER-CEPT, Kenya (Nairobi)
- Diploma in disaster managementKenya (Nairobi)
- Maestria en Ambiente Mitigacion y Prevencion de DesastresUNI, Managua, Nicaragua
Disaster management: engineering and environmental aspects2013
Teacher's manual on disaster risk reduction education2012, CI; MOET, Viet Nam - gov; Plan Intl; SCI
Munich Re: Worldwide distribution of natural catastrophes in 2012Jan 2013, Munich Re
Munich Re: Worldwide distribution of natural catastrophes in 2011Jan 2012, Munich Re
| Countries | People exposed per year
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| 1 | China | 71,297,700 |  |
| 2 | India | 58,912,300 | |
| 3 | USA | 26,055,000 | |
| 4 | Pakistan | 11,872,500 | |
| 5 | Ethiopia | 9,342,200 | |
Source of data: 2009 Global Assessment Report |
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| Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database |
External Online Resources on Drought
- 3R initiative: Be buffered
- China Risk Net - 中国风险网
- DARA: Climate vulnerability monitor
- Disaster Report: recent natural disasters list
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- FAO: Global information and early warning system (GIEWS)
- Humanitarian early warning system (HEWS): HEWSweb
- inTERRAgate
- IRI: Climate risk knowledge for water
- National Disaster Management Authority of India guidelines: multiple hazards, capacity development, information and risk management
- Natural disaster awareness tool catalogue
- Pangeo project - Geological information in support of global monitoring for environment and security
- PREVIEW Global Risk Data Platform
- SATCA: Early warning system for Central America
- UN-Water
- UNFCCC: local coping strategies database
- US drought portal
- World AgroMeteorological Information Service
- World Bank: A new way of rice cultivation - online toolkit
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