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    Social Vulnerabilities and Community Responses in India: Extreme Weather and COVID-19 Pandemic
    (Springer, Cham, 2025) Jyotsana Shukla
    The health of populations is inseparably linked with weather and climate and disease epidemiology. Extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, droughts, and dangerous flooding bring destruction in their wake. Damage to infrastructure and other built environments is easily visible after an extreme weather event. Extreme weather events bring physical injury and death, creating mental health consequences in their wake. A new realization has captured the imagination of the world, that of extreme weather events along with disease pandemics, like the COVID-19 crisis. Weather extremes and disease pandemics, together, present challenging problems particularly for governments and communities alike. Poor and vulnerable populations are the most affected. The capacity of a community to plan and prepare for extreme weather and pandemics is a new and important determinant of health consequences and their severity. Existing public health and safety systems are significant factors in responding to such combined emergencies. Other factors include the age, gender, education, medical conditions, and socioeconomic status of the populations affected. Such double events affect most, if not all, elements of life, including agriculture yields and the long-term food security of nations. Therefore, governments, community institutions, nongovernmental organizations, international agencies, and individual citizens must consider preparation for all such combined extreme events a priority. This chapter presents an overview of mental health consequences of the combined effects of a pandemic (COVID-19) and extreme weather events—heat waves, droughts, floods, rains, and their unpredictable intermittency—when they happen together. Mental health following such combined events is a challenge. Government, community, and agencies extant, rush to help, to deal effectively with the present and future combined events and their known and potential consequences. Best practices in response to this combined, continuing, extreme weather events with a pandemic are also considered.
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    Techniques and tools for monitoring agriculture drought: A review
    (Elsevier, 2024) Varsha Pandey , Prashant K. Srivastava , Anjali Kumari Singh , Swati Suman , Swati Maurya
    Drought is a global phenomenon that silently spreads and creates an insidious hazard by destabilizing the hydrological cycle over a large region. Due to increased frequency, severity, and negative impact on climate conditions, droughts have drawn worldwide attention. Real-time drought monitoring and quantification is a prerequisite to ensure the well-being of inhabitants and appropriate management of water, food, and social resources. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the agricultural drought and its association with other drought types and monitoring using satellite remote sensing images and various hydrological model-simulated datasets. Furthermore, a few widely used and essential indices for agricultural drought were discussed along with their importance and limitations. Usage of an advanced drought assessment platform and related case studies were also discussed. The chapter concludes with the challenges in agriculture drought monitoring and provides the roadmap for future research.