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Article
Why predict climate hazards if we need to understand impacts? Putting humans back into the drought equation
Virtually all climate monitoring and forecasting efforts concentrate on hazards rather than on impacts, while the latter are a priority for planning emergency activities and for the evaluation of mitigation st...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Map** Wetlands in European Headwater Areas
The paper describes the first approach to wetlands map** in headwater areas at the continental scale. Given the size of the minimum map** unit it is evident that a class like wetlands is underestimated in ...
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Scale Issues in Drought Monitoring
Drought has spatial and temporal dimensions and can be defined at a variety of scales. The complex nature of the phenomenon requires the consideration of very different data for monitoring and impact assessmen...
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Introduction
During recent years, natural disasters gained increasing attention in the minds of both the general public and the politicians. In general, concern is rising about the frequency and impact of weather-related d...
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Drought Monitoring from Space
In order to accurately assess the occurrence, extent and severity of a drought it is necessary to get a correct picture of the spatial and temporal distribution of a number of meteorological, hydrological and ...
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Conclusions and Recommendations
A lively and constructive discussion followed the presentations made in each of the five technical sessions of the workshop. A concluding session was also held, at the end of the meeting, during which previous...
