The expansion of reservoirs to cope with droughts and water shortages is hotly debated in
many places around the world. We argue that there are two counterintuitive dynamics that …

Droughts and floods are weather-related hazards affecting cities in all climate zones and
causing human deaths and material losses on all inhabited continents. The aim of this article …

The main premise of the current effort is that the use of a drought index, such as
Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), may lead to a more appropriate understanding of …

This paper examines the drought that hit Athens between 1989 and 1991 and analyses the
role of this natural phenomenon as the “ferment” for ongoing political‐economic …

Human activities and climate change constitute the contemporary catalyst for natural
processes and their impacts, ie, geo-environmental hazards. Globally, natural catastrophic …

Water demand management, or making better use of the water we have—as opposed to
augmenting supply—is increasingly proposed as a way of mitigating water-scarcity …

The ever-increasing need for water, the alteration in the climate, and its observed changes
over recent years have triggered a lot of research studies associated with the phenomenon …

This paper adopts a coevolutionary perspective to criticize the dominant narratives of water
resource development. Such narratives of progress portray a sequence of improving water …

Natural resources degradation poses multiple challenges particularly to environmental and
economic processes. It is usually difficult to identify the degree of degradation and the critical …

The scope of the present research is to assess drought events using the Standardized
Precipitation Index (SPI), which can provide accurate results of drought features on a …