Assessment of the Vulnerability to Drought and Desertification Characteristics Using the Standardized Drought Vulnerability Index (SDVI) and the Environmentally Sensitive Areas Index (ESAI)

Assessment of the Vulnerability to Drought and Desertification Characteristics Using the Standardized Drought Vulnerability Index (SDVI) and the Environmentally Sensitive Areas Index (ESAI)

The degradation of natural resources at an intense rate creates serious problems in the environmental systems particularly with the compounding effects of climatic vagaries and changes. On the one hand, desertification is a crucial universal, mostly an anthropogenic environmental issue affecting soi...

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Main Authors: Demetrios E. Tsesmelis, Christos A. Karavitis, Panagiotis D. Oikonomou, Stavros Alexandris, Constantinos Kosmas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-12-01
Series:Resources
Subjects:
integrated water resources management
drought management
contingency planning
drought
desertification
vulnerability
indices comparison
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/8/1/6

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