Drought Risk Data Catalog
Falkenmark Index
This index can be used to determine and characterize socio-economic drought hazards.
Simple
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- Digital map
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Mapping socio-economic drought
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- Daily
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- Indices
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Type: Indices
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Type of Drought: socio-economic Drought
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Application: Mapping socio-economic drought
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Extent: Global
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eng
- Description
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World
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- EPSG / Spatial_reference / 7.9
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Not relevant
Temporal Extent
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- Dataset
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Mapping socio-economic drought
Non quantitative attribute accuracy
- Measure description
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Despite its global acceptance, this indicator has numerous shortcomings. First of all, only the renewable surface and groundwater flows in a country are considered. Moreover, the water availability per person is calculated as an average with regard to both the temporal and the spatial scale and thereby neglects water shortages in dry seasons or in certain regions within a country.
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- Direct internal
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Codelist omission
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Data requirements to use: N/A;
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Concise description:
The Falkenmark Water Stress Index, which was developed by the Swedish water expert Falkenmark in 1989, consists of the sum of the total yearly local runoff per country compared to estimates of population density. Water availability of more than 1,700m³/capita/year is defined as the threshold above which water shortage occurs only irregularly or locally. Below this level, water scarcity arises in different levels of severity. Below 1,700m³/capita/year water stress appears regularly, below 1,000m³/capita/year water scarcity is a limitation to economic development and human health and well-being, and below 500m³/capita/year water availability is a main constraint to life.
- File identifier
- 7563aea0-4c0a-4391-98b4-c1910c16f018 XML
- Metadata language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Indices
- Hierarchy level name
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Falkenmark Index
- Date stamp
- 2022-02-07T11:04:30
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
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