Climate Services for Local Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is devoted to climate change and hydroclimatic risks, as recommended by the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction (2015), and hydro-climatic risk reduction measures, according the 13° Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations (2015), with specific reference to African context.
We warmly welcome original, high-quality and unpublished manuscripts that present methodologies and best practices in two broad areas:
- Local scale climate trends and climate impacts (agricultural droughts, floods, etc.),
- Climate services offered by national meteorological organizations to local planning, projects and farmers in the form of decision-making tools for disaster risk reduction (multi-hazard risk cartography and index, early warning systems, local agro-meteorological bulletins, etc.).
Dr. Alessandro Pezzoli
Prof. Dr. Maurizio Tiepolo
Dr. Vieri Tarchiani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Climate services
- DroughtFlood
- Flood time series analysis
- Early warning systems
- Risk analysis
- Multi-Hazard risk
- Risk reduction
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Published Papers
Climate - ISSN 2225-1154