Human activities and climate change constitute the contemporary catalyst for natural
processes and their impacts, ie, geo-environmental hazards. Globally, natural catastrophic …

Drought is one of the most costly natural hazards in Europe. Due to its complexity, drought
risk, meant as the combination of the natural hazard and societal vulnerability, is difficult to …

Drought in Europe is a hazard with a wide range of transboundary, environmental and socio-
economic impacts on various sectors including agriculture, energy production, public water …

The ever-increasing need for water, the alteration in the climate, and its observed changes
over recent years have triggered a lot of research studies associated with the phenomenon …

In recent years, Rwanda, especially its Eastern Province, has been contending with water
shortages, primarily due to prolonged dry spells and restricted water sources. This situation …

The questions of scale, limit, and areal extent are central points for any drought assessment
effort. Drought indices, such as the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the …

Natural resources degradation poses multiple challenges particularly to environmental and
economic processes. It is usually difficult to identify the degree of degradation and the critical …

Weather variations affect natural ecosystems, while in regions where climate change is
anticipated to intensify extreme events such as droughts, the vitality of vulnerable species …

Future changes in drought characteristics in Greece were investigated using dynamically
downscaled high-resolution simulations of 5 km. The Weather Research and Forecasting …

The scope of the present research is to assess drought events using the Standardized
Precipitation Index (SPI), which can provide accurate results of drought features on a …