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Title: Agricultural land conversion: Reviewing drought impacts and coping strategies
Authors: Azadi, Hossein
Keramati, Parisa
Taheri, Fatemeh
RAFIAANI, Parisa 
Teklemariam, Dereje
Gebrehiwot, Kindeya
Hosseininia, Gholamhossein
VAN PASSEL, Steven 
Lebailly, Philippe
WITLOX, Frank 
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, 31, p. 184-195
Abstract: This paper aims to review the impacts of drought on agricultural land conversion (ALC) on the one hand and the impacts of ALC on intensifying drought on the other. The paper further investigates coping strategies at three levels; i.e., micro (local), meso (national), and macro (international), in order to mitigate drought impacts that are classified as economic, social, and environmental. This paper shows that ALC, drought and coping strategies are in a reciprocal relationship and can have either a positive or negative influence on each other. The paper concludes that the complex and multidimensional nature of drought requires the development of an integrated approach that focuses on the governments' collaboration with different stakeholders. Such an integrated approach can improve drought risk management implementations, decrease vulnerability and construct resilience and coping capacity at all levels in order to deal with droughts.
Notes: [Azadi, Hossein; Witlox, Frank] Univ Ghent, Dept Geogh, Ghent, Belgium. [Azadi, Hossein; Van Passel, Steven] Univ Antwerp, Dept Engn Management, Antwerp, Belgium. [Keramati, Parisa] Islamic Azad Univ, Khorasgan Branch, Dept Soil Sci, Esfahan, Iran. [Taheri, Fatemeh] Univ Ghent, Dept Agr Econ, Ghent, Belgium. [Rafiaani, Parisa; Van Passel, Steven] UHasselt, Environm Econ Res Grp, Ctr Environm Sci, Agoralaan, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Teklemariam, Dereje] Mekelle Univ, Dept Management, Mekelle, Ethiopia. [Gebrehiwot, Kindeya] Mekelle Univ, Dept Land Resource Management & Environm Protect, Mekelle, Ethiopia. [Hosseininia, Gholamhossein] Univ Tehran, Fac Entrepreneurship, Dept Entrepreneurship Technol, Tehran, Iran. [Rafiaani, Parisa; Lebailly, Philippe] Univ Liege, Econ & Rural Dev, Gembloux Agrobio Tech, Liege, Belgium. [Witlox, Frank] Univ Tartu, Dept Geog, Tartu, Estonia. [Witlox, Frank] Nanjing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Coll Civil Aviat, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China.
Keywords: Land use change; Human environment; Coping and mitigation policies; Vulnerability; Adaptation;Land use change; Human environment; Coping and mitigation policies; Vulnerability; Adaptation
Document URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/28625
ISSN: 2212-4209
e-ISSN: 2212-4209
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.05.003
ISI #: 000446353300020
Category: A1
Type: Journal Contribution
Validations: ecoom 2019
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