Mitigating drought - long-term planning to reduce vulnerability (English)

About 1.3 billion of the world's people live on fragile land-arid, semiarid, mountainous, or steep terrain (World Bank 2002). Such lands are often prone to drought, which can result in humanitarian, environmental, and economic disaster. But being drought prone is not necessarily the same as being vulnerable. Much depends on how dependent the economy is on rain and on whether the country's risk management and infrastructure are adequate and appropriate...

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Esikuri,Enos E.;
Document Date
2005/06/01
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Brief
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37952
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Mitigating drought - long-term planning to reduce vulnerability
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drought

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Esikuri,Enos E..

Mitigating drought - long-term planning to reduce vulnerability (English). Environment Strategy Notes ; No. 13 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/291381468316145285

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