Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity

Editors

Contributors

1 Drought Vulnerability

Chandrashekhar Bhuiyan

2 Drought Impacts on Urbanization

Shafi Noor Islam and Samina Mazumder Tuli

3 Environmental Impacts of Drought on Desertification Classification

Nicolas R. Dalezios and Saeid Eslamian

4 Climate Parameter Variability

Marco Casazza

5 Climate Change Impact on Urban Water Deficit

Sara Nazif, Hamed Tavakolifar, and Saeid Eslamian

6 Climate Change Impacts on and Adaptation to Groundwater

Shamsuddin Shahid, Mahiuddin Alamgir, Xiao-jun Wang, and Saeid Eslamian

7 Climate Change Impacts on Precipitation and Temperature

Marina Baldi

8 Minimizing the Impacts of Drought

Oluwagbenga O.I. Orimoogunje and Saeid Eslamian

9 Climate Change and Drought: Building Resilience for an Unpredictable Future

Hamideh Maleksaeidi, Marzieh Keshavarz, Ezatollah Karami, and Saeid Eslamian

10 Sustainable Agriculture: Building Social-Ecological Resilience

Mohammad Naser Reyhani, Saeid Eslamian, and Alireza Davari

11 Drought and Water Quality

Theodore C. Crusberg and Saeid Eslamian

12 Securing Water Pollution

Marine Nalbandyan

13 Conjunctive Use of Water Reuse in Drought

Katherine Y. Bell, Robert Bastian, and Jennifer A. Gelmini

14 Criteria for Wastewater Treatment and Reuse under Water Scarcity

Miquel Salgot, Gideon Oron, Giuseppe L. Cirelli, Nicolas R. Dalezios, Amelia Díaz, and Andreas N. Angelakis

15 Drought and Groundwater Quality in Coastal Areas

Yohannes Yihdego

16 Contamination of Groundwater in Arid and Semiarid Lands

Noureddine Gaaloul, Saeid Eslamian, and Benoit Laignel

17 Sanitation in Drought

Bosun Banjoko and Saeid Eslamian

18 Environmental Flows Assessment in Scarce Water Resources

Alireza Davari, Ali Bagheri, Mohammad Naser Reyhani, and Saeid Eslamian

19 Low Flow and Instream Flow Requirements

Salvatore Alecci and Giuseppe Rossi

20 Streamflow Quality in Low-Flow Conditions

Qin Qian and Saeid Eslamian

21 River Sediment in Low Flow Condition

Nazanin Mohammadzade Miyab, Saeid Eslamian, and Nicolas R. Dalezios

22 Impact of Overexploitation of Water Resources on Ecohydrological Change in China

Tadanobu Nakayama

23 Crop Insurance in Drought Conditions

C. Dionisio Pérez-Blanco, Gonzalo Delacámara, C. Mario Gómez, and Saeid Eslamian

24 Biotechnology for Drought Improvement

Danial Kahrizi, Kasra Esfehani, Ali Ashraf Mehrabi, Matin Ghaheri, Zahra Azizi Aram, Solmaz Khosravi, and Saeid Eslamian

25 Water Issues from a System Dynamics Perspective

Peter Wade and Saeid Eslamian

26 Rainwater Harvesting in Arid Regions of Australia

Ataur Rahman, Evan Hajani, and Saeid Eslamian

27 Water Conservation Techniques

Meysam Malekian Jabali, Saeid Okhravi, Saeid Eslamian, and Saeed Gohari

28 Food Security and Nutrition Policy

Shafi Noor Islam, Sandra Reinstädtler, Maria Aparecida de SáXavier, and Albrecht Gnauck

29 Soil Contaminations in Arid and Semiarid Land

Saumitra Mukherjee, Kamana Yadav, and Saeid Eslamian

30 Water Scarcity and Sustainable Urban Green Landscape

Soleyman Dayani, Mohammad R. Sabzalian, Mahdi Hadipour, and Saeid Eslamian

31 Drought in Lake Urmia

Saeid Okhravi, Saeid Eslamian, and Saleh Tarkesh Esfahany

32 Interbasin Transfers of Water: Zayandeh-Rud River Basin

Alireza Gohari, Mohammad Javad Zareian, Saeid Eslamian, and Rouzbeh Nazari

33 Environmental Evaluation: Lessons Learned from Case Studies

Bosun Banjoko and Saeid Eslamian

34 Paleo-Drought: Measurements and Analysis

Dinara Abbasova, Saeid Eslamian, and Rouzbeh Nazari

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