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Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture pp 53–69Cite as

Challenges to Coping Strategies with Agrometeorological Risks and Uncertainties in Asian Regions

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In the four coping strategies that can be distinguished as disaster preparedness, mitigation practices, contingency planning and responses, and disaster risk mainstreaming (see Stigter et al., 2007), we have reduced every strategy to certain aspects of preparedness. In this view, challenges to coping strategies are challenges to preparedness strategies; with respect to the hazards and the vulnerabilities that together lead to the disasters producing risks and their consequences and with respect to the uncertainties producing possible damages (see also Medury in Sahni and Aryabandu 2003).

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  1. National Centre for Medium Range, Weather Forecasting, A-50, Institutional Area, Phase II, Sector-62, Noida (UP), 201 307, India

    L. S. Rathore

  2. Agromet Vision and INSAM, Groenestraat 13, 5314 AJ, Bruchem, The Netherlands

    C. J. Stigter

  3. Jl. Diponegoro 166, 68214, Bondowoso, Indonesia

    C. J. Stigter

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    Mannava V. K. Sivakumar

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Rathore, L.S., Stigter, C.J. (2007). Challenges to Coping Strategies with Agrometeorological Risks and Uncertainties in Asian Regions. In: Sivakumar, M.V.K., Motha, R.P. (eds) Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72746-0_4

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