Observations show that warming of the climate is unequivocal. The global warming
observed over the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat …

Future water management will shift from building new water supply systems to better
operating existing ones. The variation of water values in time and space will increasingly …

Traditional, mainstream definitions of drought describe it as deficit in water‐related variables
or water‐dependent activities (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, surface and groundwater …

Observed changes in precipitation patterns, rising surface temperature, increases in
frequency and intensity of floods and droughts, widespread melting of ice, and reduced …

Zayandeh-Rud River Basin is one of the most important basins in central Iran, which has
been continually challenged by water stress during the past 60years. Traditionally, a supply …

Climate change is one of the great challenges of the 21st century [1]. The International
Energy Agency (IEA) report of 2011 projected that renewables based electricity generation …

This chapter assesses the literature on the economics of climate change adaptation,
building on the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) and the increasing role that economic …

This study evaluates climate change impacts on crop production and water productivity of
four major crops (wheat, barley, rice, and corn) in Iran's Zayandeh-Rud River Basin. Multi …

Drought comprehensively affects different interlinked aspects of the terrestrial water cycle,
which have so far been mostly investigated without direct comparison. Resolving the …

Socioeconomic drought broadly refers to conditions whereby the water supply cannot satisfy
the demand. Most previous studies describe droughts based on large‐scale meteorological …