Integrated Drought Management Program

Document Type : review paper

Authors

• Ali Motamedi
• Daruosh Baharlooee Bardshahi

Science and research branch of tehran

10.22067/jwsd.v4i1.55449

Abstract

In the past decades, we have seen drought in several different countries of the world: in developed, developing, and poor countries. Drought is a natural disaster, however, its impact on people and the environment is disastrous. The prediction of the onset, severity, duration, and the end of this phenomenon, is very difficult. Damages caused by drought include economic (decreased production of crops and livestock), environmental (reducing the quality of water resources), and social (mortality and migration) effects. The side effects of the aforementioned impacts are part of the destructive nature of drought on a community. What is clear is that the causes of drought are not in the control of human beings. However, management tools and compatibility with this event are one of the initiatives of major experts and decision-makers of risk management and crisis in a country. In 2014, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP) provided and published a journal entitled “National Guidelines on Drought Policy” or “Continuous Drought Management” that is the result of the efforts of specialists of the two organizations in collecting experiences of successful countries in the management of drought. The conclusion of all of these experiences led to offering a 10-step approach in the National Directorate of drought. What is presented in this paper is a summary of the translation of this publication that deals with strategies of drought management, which our country also faces.

Keywords

• drought
• Crisis Management
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
• Global Water Partnership (GWP)

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References

WMO and GWP. 2014. National Drought Management Policy Guidelines, A Template for Action: Available in: http://www.gwp.org/Global/About%20GWP/Publications/Integrated%20Drought%20Management%20Programme/GWP_NDMPG_final_web.pdf (visited 14 April 2015)