TY - BOOK ID - 146280396 TI - Risk-Informed Sustainable Development in the Rural Tropics AU - Tiepolo, Maurizio AU - Tarchiani, Vieri AU - Pezzoli, Alessandro PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Research & information: general KW - climate change KW - contingency plan KW - flood risk KW - local development plan KW - risk management KW - sustainable rural development KW - agricultural drought KW - heavy rains KW - hydrological drought KW - meteorological drought KW - risk assessment KW - Sahel KW - early warning KW - hydrology KW - local communities KW - Niger river basin KW - rural development KW - disaster risk reduction KW - official development assistance KW - public participation KW - risk tracking KW - Sendai framework KW - sustainable development KW - dataset validation KW - precipitation KW - Kenya KW - local climate KW - ASALs KW - Quantile Mapping KW - climate services KW - local drought risk reduction KW - smallholder farmers KW - agrometeorological forecast KW - Niger KW - natural resources KW - Mauritania KW - resource management KW - regional planning KW - participatory approach KW - EO data KW - water resources KW - sustainable management KW - local development KW - water for food security KW - building consolidation KW - extreme precipitations KW - flood exposure KW - satellite remote sensing KW - settlement dynamics KW - vulnerability KW - agriculture KW - Nitrate runoff KW - real-time monitoring KW - water quality KW - rural area KW - scant data KW - nitrate contamination KW - water KW - flood KW - Sinai Peninsula KW - flash flood KW - CORDEX KW - water harvesting KW - indigenous farmers KW - multinational corporations KW - systems thinking KW - Nigeria KW - sub-Saharan Africa KW - drought KW - rainfall regime KW - soil biogeochemistry KW - natural disasters KW - flooding KW - flood vulnerability KW - inequality KW - risk premium KW - expected annual damages KW - certainty equivalent annual damages KW - equity weight expected annual damages KW - equity weight certainty equivalent annual damage KW - soil erosion KW - Great Rift Valley Lakes KW - ASAL KW - desertification KW - groundwater resources KW - fluoride KW - main Ethiopian Rift Valley KW - developing countries KW - welfare KW - panel probit model KW - adoption KW - propensity score matching KW - water crisis in Africa KW - water collection and retention systems KW - sand dam KW - migration KW - risk communication KW - volcanic hazards KW - social risk perception KW - resilience KW - demonstrator KW - scenario KW - multi-risk analysis KW - climate-smart agriculture KW - socio-ecological systems KW - extension KW - Belize KW - milpa KW - food security KW - sustainability KW - photovoltaic energy KW - desalination system KW - SIDS KW - CO2 emissions KW - LCOW KW - LEOW UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146280396 AB - Many people live in rural areas in tropical regions. Rural development is not merely a contribution to the growth of individual countries. It can be a way to reduce poverty and to increase access to water, health care, and education. Sustainable rural development can also help stop deforestation and reduce livestock, which generate most of the greenhouse gas emissions. However, efforts to achieve a sustainable rural development are often thwarted by floods, drought, heat waves, and hurricanes, which local communities are not very prepared to tackle. Agricultural practices and local planning are still not very risk-informed. These deficiencies are particularly acute in tropical regions, where many Least Developed Countries are located and where there is, however, great potential for rural development. This Special Issue contains 22 studies on best practices for risk awareness; on local risk reduction; on several cases of soil depletion, water pollution, and sustainable access to safe water; and on agronomy, earth sciences, ecology, economy, environmental engineering, geomatics, materials science, and spatial and regional planning in 12 tropical countries. ER -