Following the debate on whether drought has become more severe under climate change, this paper assesses drought frequency in northern and eastern India using two datasets of Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) (generated by Dai, 2013 and Sheffield et al., 2012). The univariate return period for...
Gea, Yan
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Cai, Ximing
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Zhu, Tingju
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Ringler, Claudia
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[Drought frequency change: An assessment in northern India plains]
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Drought frequency change: An assessment in northern India plains
Several environmental changes have occurred in the Sudan in the past; several are ongoing; and others are projected to happen in the future. The Sudan has witnessed increases in temperature, floods, rainfall variability, and concurrent droughts. In a country where agriculture, which is mainly rai...
Siddig, Khalid
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Stepanyan, Davit
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Wiebelt, Manfred
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Zhu, Tingju
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Grethe, Harald
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[Climate change and agriculture in the Sudan: Impact pathways beyond changes in mean rainfall and temperature]
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Climate change and agriculture in the Sudan: Impact pathways beyond changes in mean rainfall and temperature
The resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 25 September 2015 is symptomatic of the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus. It postulates goals and related targets for 2030 that include (1) End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agricu...
Ringler, Claudia
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Willenbockel, Dirk
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Pérez, Nicostrato D.
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Zhu, Tingju
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Matthews, Nathaniel
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[Global linkages among energy, food and water: an economic assessment]
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Global linkages among energy, food and water: an economic assessment
The Global Community tries to make progress on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that UN member states adopted in 2015. Key among these are SDG 2: “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture”; SDG 6: “Ensure availability and sustainable man...
Ringler, Claudia
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Willenbockel, Dirk
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Perez, Nicostrato
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Zhu, Tingju
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[The impact of a carbon tax on fossil fuels on the WEF nexus]
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The impact of a carbon tax on fossil fuels on the WEF nexus
The project titled “The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Global, Basin and Local Case Studies of Resource Use Efficiency under Growing Natural Resource Scarcity“ (2015-2018), which was supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany, and was undertaken as part of the C...