Abstract
The role of social science research should be to assist societies in developing improved mechanisms to deal with drought. The discussion that follows attempts to raise a number of concerns about the more traditional means of evaluating drought's effect on society. The paper is divided into four segments. The first briefly reviews a portion of the extensive literature on drought and climate impact analysis. A number of common themes from those analyses that suggest a need for advancing research thrust are identified. The second section considers the derought problem from a decision-making perspective. Implications of this approach for understanding societal responses to drought are suggested. The decision-making framework is used as an underpinning for the paper's third section, which refers to implementation of that framework in a research approach. The potential for integrated quantitative models as a means to evaluate climate/human interactions is evaluated. -from Author
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Scientific reviews on arid zone research |
Editors | H S Mann |
Publisher | Scientific Publishers |
Pages | 167-190 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Volume | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 9788172330309 |
State | Published - 1992 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Environmental Science
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences