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What is drought? Unfortunately, for all that drought is a common, recurring phenomenon, it lacks a single, all-embracing definition. While drought affects virtually all sectors of an economy, it does so in such a variety of ways that each sector is apt to have its own concept of drought, and its own criteria for gauging the severity of drought.
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Whitmore, J.S. (2000). Drought Concepts and Characteristics. In: Drought Management on Farmland. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9562-9_2
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