Tools for Drought Mitigation in Mediterranean Regions

by Rossi, Giuseppe; Cancelliere. Antonino; Pereira, Luis S.; Oweis, Theib; Shatanawi, Muhammad

• ISBN13: 9781402011405
• ISBN10: 1402011407
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The increasing risk of severe droughts and water shortages emphasizes the need for an integrated approach to drought mitigation. However, effective tools for the implementation of such an approach have not been available till now. This book contributes to an improved preparedness for drought in water supply systems, providing tools useful for a better decision making process in drought management. It presents methods and software features of a Decision Support System (DSS) developed within a European research project and consists of three main parts. The first part deals with the advanced techniques for hydrological drought identification and monitoring; the second analyses the successful use of climate-crop-soil models in defining deficit irrigation strategies; the third provides tools for improving the operation of irrigation supply reservoirs. All methods are embedded in a user-friendly DSS package that has been applied in several Case Studies of Mediterranean countries (Portugal, Italy, Tunisia, Jordan and Syria) and whose results are also compared.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part 1: Introduction
An integrated approach to drought mitigation in Mediterranean Regions	3	(16)
G. Rossi
Irrigation demand management to cope with drought and water scarcity	19	(18)
L.S. Pereira
Part 2: Drought identification and monitoring in Mediterranean regions
At-site and regional drought identification by REDIM model	37	(18)
G. Rossi
A. Cancelliere
Analysis of local and regional droughts in southern Portugal using the theory of runs and the Standardised Precipitation Index	55	(24)
A.A. Paulo
L.S. Pereira
P. G. Matias
Local and regional droughts in Siliana catchment, Tunisia	79	(10)
M. Bergouui
Drought identification and characterisation in Jordan	89	(14)
A. Al-Salihi
Droughts in Sicily and comparison of identified droughts in Mediterranean regions	103	(20)
A. Cancelliere
G. Rossi
Regionalisation and identification of droughts in Mediterranean countries of Europe	123	(24)
J. Alvarez
T. Estrela
Requisites for a Drought Watch System	147	(14)
G. Rossi
Part 3: Modelling irrigation management under drought conditions
Irrigation scheduling simulation: the model ISAREG	161	(20)
L.S. Pereira
P.R. Teodoro
P.N. Rodrigues
J.L. Teixeira
Coping with drought: deficit irrigation strategies for cereals and field horticultural crops in central Tunisia	181	(22)
A. Zairi
H. El Amami
A. Slatni
L.S. Pereira
P.N. Rodrigues
T. Machado
Feasibility of deficit irrigation with center-pivot to cope with limited water supplies in Alentejo, Portugal	203	(20)
P.N. Rodrigues
T. Machado
L. S. Pereira
J.L. Teixeira
H. El Amami
A. Zairi
Irrigation scheduling simulation for citrus in Sicily to cope with water scarcity	223	(20)
I. Alba
P. N. Rodrigues
L. S. Pereira
Irrigation management dynamics in the Jordan valley under drought conditions	243	(16)
M. Shatanawi
Y. Al-Zu'bi
O. Al-Jayoussi
Simulation of supplemental irrigation strategies for wheat in Near East to cope with water scarcity	259	(16)
T. Oweis
P. N. Rodrigues
L.S. Pereira
Part 4: Modelling water supply system operation under drought conditions
Derivation of operation rules for an irrigation water supply system by multiple linear regression and neural networks	275	(18)
A. Cancelliere
G. Giuliano
A. Ancarani
G. Rossi
Optimisation of reservoir management in the semi-arid countries: case of Lakhmess, Tunisia	293	(12)
F. Lebdi
M. Bergaoui
M.A. Bouslimi
Decision support system for the evaluation of droughts and drought mitigation measures	305	(14)
A. Cancelliere
G. Giuliano
A. Longheu
Long-term and short-term measures for coping with drought	319	(24)
B. Dziegielewski
Appendix: Report and recommendations of the Expert Consultation and Workshop on Drought Mitigation for the Near East and the Mediterranean (Aleppo, May 27-31, 2001)	343	(6)
List of contributors	349	(4)
Subject index	353