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4 Innovations and Solutions in Sustainability Science for Drylands Areas
4 Innovations and Solutions in Sustainability Science for Drylands Areas
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In addition, new functionalities, such as soil health monitoring and land type cross-referencing, are scheduled to be added in late 2018 and early 2019. Ultimately, he said that the application will help maximize land use potential and return on investment using targeted management inputs.
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Drought is a complex problem with several different definitions and no one simple solution. She said that drought is usually categorized based on four common measurements, three of which measure drought as a physical phenomenon: meteorological drought, which is a precipitation deficit; hydrological drought, which occurs when low water supply affects streams, reservoirs, and groundwater levels; and agricultural drought, which occurs when crops are affected.
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Drought Monitor to trigger payouts to farmers and ranchers through its Livestock Forage Disaster Program.2 For droughts from 2011 to 2017, the program made payments of more than $6.6 billion.3 She said drought is one of the most expensive types of natural disaster events, second to tropical typhoons,4 and droughts have ripple effects that can be felt around the world. Using World Bank data on monthly wheat prices, she was able to show how spikes in prices coincided with drought events (see Figure 4-1)
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The framework coordinates research, planning, and education at multiple spatial scales to address underlying risks and vulnerabilities. Weight outlined several interdisciplinary research applications currently supported by NIDIS.
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NOAA also supports the North American Drought Monitor,8 which combines the national drought monitors of Mexico, the United States, and Canada into one product that shows the current status and future outlook of drought across the continent. The North American Seasonal Fire Potential Outlook, the Rio Grande and Rio Bravo Outlooks, and the National Integrated Heat Health Information System are three other drought information products that are integrated into regional drought early warning systems to provide better information for early warning and decision making.
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Subsequently, Mexico funded 100 percent of the total cost, and now the Los Alisos water treatment plant is the first plant in Latin America to fully run on solar energy. Alvarez provided several other examples of successful cross-border collaboration that showed how the United States and Mexico successfully shared the benefit and the burden of these innovations.
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