De Nys Erwin - Drought in Brazil: proactive management and policy

Drought in Brazil

Proactive Management and Policy

Drought and Water Crises

Series Editor: Donald A. Wilhite

Published Titles:

Drought in Brazil: Proactive Management and Policy

Editors: Erwin De Nys, Nathan L. Engle, and Antnio Rocha Magalhes

Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate

Editors: Kathleen A. Miller, Alan F. Hamlet, Douglas S. Kenney, and Kelly T. Redmond

Drought, Risk Management, and Policy: Decision Making under Uncertainty

Editors: Linda Courtenay Botterill and Geoff Cockfield

Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches

Editors:Brian D. Wardlow, Martha C. Anderson, and James P. Verdin

Drought in Brazil

Proactive Management and Policy

Edited by Erwin De Nys Nathan L. Engle Antnio Rocha Magalhes

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Engle, Nathan, author. | De Nys, Erwin author. | Magalhaes, Antonio Rocha, author.

Title: Drought in Brazil : proactive management and policy / Nathan Engle, Erwin De Nys, and Antonio Rocha Magalhaes.

Description: Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis, 2016. | Series: Drought and water crises | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016005747 | ISBN 9781498765664 (hard copy)

Subjects: LCSH: Droughts--Brazil, Northeast. | Drought management--Brazil, Northeast. | Droughts--Government policy--Northeast. | Water supply--Brazil, Northeast.

Classification: LCC QC929.28.B6 E64 2016 | DDC 363.34/9295610981--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016005747

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Contents

Antnio Rocha Magalhes

Eduardo Svio P.R. Martins, Francisco Jos Coelho Teixeira, Joo Gilberto Lotufo Conejo, Jos Machado, and Antonio Divino Moura

Erwin De Nys, Nathan L. Engle, and Carmen Molejn Quintana

Eduardo Svio P.R. Martins, Carmen Molejn Quintana, Maria Assuno F. Silva Dias, Robson Franklin Vieira Silva, Bruno Biazeto, Gisela Damm Forattini, and Julia Cadaval Martins

Francisco de Assis de Souza Filho, Marcos Thadeu Abicalil, Paula Pedreira de Freitas de Oliveira, and Cybelle Frazo Costa Braga

Barbara Farinelli, Pablo Valdivia, and Diego Arias

Michael Hayes, Mario Lpez Prez, Joaqun Andreu, Mark Svoboda, Brian Fuchs, Felipe Arregun Corts, and Nathan L. Engle

Nathan L. Engle, Erwin De Nys, Antnio Rocha Magalhes, and John Redwood III

Dorte Verner

Paulo Bastos

Eduardo Svio P.R. Martins, Robson Franklin Vieira Silva, Bruno Biazeto, and Carmen Molejn Quintana

Francisco de Assis de Souza Filho, Paula Pedreira de Freitas de Oliveira, Marcos Thadeu Abicalil, Cybelle Frazo Costa Braga, Samria Maria Oliveira da Silva, Sandra Helena Silva de Aquino, Daniel Antonio Camelo Cid, Luiz Martins de Arajo Jnior, and Ana Cludia Fernandes Medeiros Braga

This book is part of an ongoing series published by CRC Press under the title Drought and Water Crises: Science, Technology, and Management Issues. In 2005, I edited a book with the same title that addressed the intersection of drought and water-related issues. Since the publication of that book, concerns have continued to mount around the linkages between drought and water issues such as climate change, water scarcity, food security, and the sustainable use and management of natural resources. These are topics of frequent concern and debate in the scientific literature, the policy arena, and the media. The opportunity to expand discussion on these and other topics through a series of books aimed at drought and water management is timely and will assist scientists, natural resource managers, and policy makers in gaining a better understanding of these important issues.

Drought is a slow-onset natural hazard that is often referred to as a creeping phenomenon. The challenge of monitoring droughts onset, evolution, and identifying its termination or end is one that scientists, natural resource managers, and decision makers have been struggling with for decades. However, drought management must be aimed at reducing the risks of future drought events on economies, the environment, and the social fabric of regions.

Erwin De Nys, Nathan L. Engle, and Antnio Rocha Magalhes have edited a remarkable book for the next addition to this book series. Drought in Brazil: Proactive Management and Policy provides an important story of recent efforts in Brazil to move the country away from crisis management to proactive management of droughts in order to demonstrate how development practitioners and government officials might achieve similar paradigm shifts in other countries. Over my career, I have had the opportunity to work with Brazilian officials in pursuit of this goal. Strides have been made over the past several decades, but recent efforts have been more dramatic, borrowing experiences and technologies from the United States, Mexico, Spain, and other countries. This progress was, to a large degree, stimulated by a series of extreme drought years that affected Brazil, especially the Northeast region.

The editors have structured this book in a manner that is intended to appeal to various audiences. The recent advancements in drought management and policy in Brazil, while are in part very technical and scientific in nature, are first told in more of a story-telling format (). In the end, this book presents valuable lessons for all drought-prone regions, as they struggle to meet the real-world challenges of drought management today and in the future, given our changing climate.