Risk-Informed Sustainable Development in the Rural Tropics

Risk-Informed Sustainable Development in the Rural Tropics

Many people live in rural areas in tropical regions. Rural development is not merely a contribution to the growth of individual countries. It can be a way to reduce poverty and to increase access to water, health care, and education. Sustainable rural development can also help stop deforestation and...

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Other Authors: Tiepolo, Maurizio (Editor), Tarchiani, Vieri (Editor), Pezzoli, Alessandro (Editor)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
Subjects:
Research & information: general
climate change
contingency plan
flood risk
local development plan
risk management
sustainable rural development
agricultural drought
heavy rains
hydrological drought
meteorological drought
risk assessment
Sahel
early warning
hydrology
local communities
Niger river basin
rural development
disaster risk reduction
official development assistance
public participation
risk tracking
Sendai framework
sustainable development
dataset validation
precipitation
Kenya
local climate
ASALs
Quantile Mapping
climate services
local drought risk reduction
smallholder farmers
agrometeorological forecast
Niger
natural resources
Mauritania
resource management
regional planning
participatory approach
EO data
water resources
sustainable management
local development
water for food security
building consolidation
extreme precipitations
flood exposure
satellite remote sensing
settlement dynamics
vulnerability
agriculture
Nitrate runoff
real-time monitoring
water quality
rural area
scant data
nitrate contamination
water
flood
Sinai Peninsula
flash flood
CORDEX
water harvesting
indigenous farmers
multinational corporations
systems thinking
Nigeria
sub-Saharan Africa
drought
rainfall regime
soil biogeochemistry
natural disasters
flooding
flood vulnerability
inequality
risk premium
expected annual damages
certainty equivalent annual damages
equity weight expected annual damages
equity weight certainty equivalent annual damage
soil erosion
Great Rift Valley Lakes
ASAL
desertification
groundwater resources
fluoride
main Ethiopian Rift Valley
developing countries
welfare
panel probit model
adoption
propensity score matching
water crisis in Africa
water collection and retention systems
sand dam
migration
risk communication
volcanic hazards
social risk perception
resilience
demonstrator
scenario
multi-risk analysis
climate-smart agriculture
socio-ecological systems
extension
Belize
milpa
food security
sustainability
photovoltaic energy
desalination system
SIDS
CO2 emissions
LCOW
LEOW
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