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GAR Special Report on Drought 2021_

21 Jun 2021

Special Report on Drought 2021 The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country or territory or of its authorities or concerning the delimitations of its frontiers or boundaries. [...] The size org/publication/gar-special-report-drought-2021 of the risk and thus the impacts of the realization of drought risk are dependent on the levels of exposure The case studies have emerged from damaging and vulnerability. [...] While vulnerability has many dimensions across the case studies, there The lived experience explores the impact of cycles are large numbers of people in fragile communities of drought, the uncertainty of drought initiation, the dependent on highly drought-sensitive activities like importance of drought length and severity in terms agriculture and livestock management, and which of impacts, and the. [...] This requires new forms of governance private, civil society and financial institutions that are designed for the systemic nature of the risk to accelerate national and local policy planning and can respond to the extraordinary complexity of and implementation, along with accelerated and the drought experience. [...] It shows that most of the global regions drought by the end of the twenty-first century, with that experienced the highest hazard (assessed regional hotspots including central and western considering frequency and severity) in the last few Europe and South America, in which the frequency years are also likely to face the highest hazard in of hydrological drought increases by more than the twenty-f.
Pages
210
Published in
Switzerland

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