Drought

Ben Cook

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

Drought

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Ben Cook

https://doi.org/10.7312/cook17688

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About this book

Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environmental and sustainability studies.

Author information

Benjamin I. Cook is a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. He also teaches on drought and climate science in Columbia’s School of Professional Studies.

Reviews

Julio L. Betancourt, visiting scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center:
Cook’s tome is a first-principles, comprehensive, and up-to-date exposition of drought, including its drivers and consequences, by a major player working at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary science. The book is perfectly organized, written, and illustrated, with the early chapters on hydrology and climate laying the needed groundwork for the reader to truly appreciate the later chapters on the history and future of drought and its impacts. In my estimation, this is easily the most important and useful book ever published on the phenomenon of drought.

Jonathan T. Overpeck, William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor and Samuel A. Graham Dean of the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability:
Drought, aridity, and hydroclimatic stress are major concerns worldwide, and climate change is already making the situation worse. This book provides a foundation that many—whether interested in the basic science, the human impacts, or the impacts on natural systems—will find useful. Rarely are relevant insights from the recent geologic past woven together so well with knowledge gained from the instrumental and satellite era to illuminate the challenges that lie ahead. The evidence provided in this book highlights how serious the threat to both humans and nature will be. A must-read.

Brian Wardlow, director and professor, Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln:
This book presents an interesting, multidisciplinary perspective on the various dimensions of drought, which is a complex natural hazard of global importance.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ONE. Introduction to the Hydrologic Cycle and Drought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
TWO. Global Hydroclimatology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
THREE. Drought in the Climate System Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
FOUR. Drought and Hydroclimate in the Holocene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
FIVE. Climate Change and Drought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
SIX. Case Studies: The Dust Bowl and Sahel Droughts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
SEVEN. Land Degradation and Desertification Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
EIGHT. Groundwater and Irrigation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Other: 57 color illustrations

eBook

Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9780231548908