Drought and declining reservoirs: Comparing media discourse in Arizona and New Mexico, 2002–2004

Sonnett, John; Morehouse, Barbara J.; Finger, Thomas; Garfin, Gregg M.; Rattray, Nicholas A.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2005.11.004

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“…Gober and Wheater [2015] also raise the interesting point that the media shapes much of society's flood risk perception, such that floods taking place in one place may affect flood risk perceptions in another. Moreover, media discourse encapsulates the histories and cultures of specific places that can translate into behavior and responses to water-related crises [Sonnett et al, 2006]. The historical and cultural drivers and processes of social systems may pose further challenges for socio-hydrologic modeling [Stepp et al, 2003].…”

Section: Post Scriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Debates—Perspectives on socio‐hydrology: Socio‐hydrologic modeling: Tradeoffs, hypothesis testing, and validation

Troy

Pavao-Zuckerman

Evans

2015

Water Resources Research

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Socio-hydrology focuses on studying the dynamics and co-evolution of coupled human and water systems. Recently, several new socio-hydrologic models have been published that explore these dynamics, and these models offer unique opportunities to better understand these coupled systems and to understand how water problems evolve similarly in different regions. These models also offer challenges, as decisions need to be made by the modeler on trade-offs between generality, precision, and realism. In addition, traditional hydrologic model validation techniques, such as evaluating simulated streamflow, are insufficient, and new techniques must be developed. As socio-hydrology progresses, these models offer a robust, invaluable tool to test hypotheses about the relationships between aspects of coupled human-water systems. They will allow us to explore multiple working hypotheses to greatly expand insights and understanding of coupled socio-hydrologic systems.

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Section: Post Scriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Debates—Perspectives on socio‐hydrology: Socio‐hydrologic modeling: Tradeoffs, hypothesis testing, and validation

Troy

Pavao-Zuckerman

Evans

2015

Water Resources Research

116

118

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“…Climate change predictions for Europe indicate considerable changes in the water balance throughout Europe, with an increased probability for summer droughts in the Mediterranean, South Eastern, and also Central Europe, including the territory of the Czech Republic (IPCC 2007). A growing number of studies is focusing on the drought risk and vulnerability assessment (e.g., Lana and Burgueño 1998;Wilhelmi et al 2002;Brunetti et al 2002;Heim 2002;Wilhite 2000), drought monitoring and early warming (Wilhite and Svoboda 2000;Svoboda et al 2002), and drought policy and mitigation activities (Liu and Kogan 1996;Kogan 2000;Sonnett et al 2006;Brown et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Drought episodes in the Czech Republic and their potential effects in agriculture

Potop

Türkott

Kožnarová

et al. 2009

Theor Appl Climatol

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This paper presents the methodology for assessment of drought episodes and their potential effects on winter and spring cereal crops in the Czech Republic (in the text referred to as Czechia). Historical climate and crop yields data for the period of 47 years have been integrated into an agrometeorological database. The drought episodes were determined by three methods: according to the values of the standardized precipitation index (SPI), percentage of long-term precipitations (r), and on the basis of the Ped drought index (S i ). Consequently, the combined SPI, S i , and r indices have been used as tools in identification of the severity, frequency, and extent of drought episodes. Additionally, the paper also presents the S i drought index and its potential use for real-time monitoring of spatial extension and severity of droughts in Czechia. The drought risk to crops was analyzed by identifying the relationships between the fluctuation of crop yields and drought index (S i ) based on the multiple regression analysis with stepwise selection. In general, models explain that a high percentage of the variability of the yield is due to drought (more than 45% of yield variance).

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“…One of the most common applications of critical discourse analysis in environmental and climate change is the study of media impact (Antilla 2005;Farbotko 2005;von Storch and Krauss 2005;Sonnett et al 2006;Carvalho 2007;Doulton and Brown 2009;Russill and Nyssa 2009). Ample literature exists to describe this methodology, especially in the field of linguistics (Wodak and Meyer 2009) and the present research has no such ambition.…”

Section: Discourse and Discourse Analysismentioning

confidence: 93%

Environment and Mobility: A View from Four Discourses

Morinière

Hamza

2012

AMBIO

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Debate and literature on the link between degrading environments and human mobility has been increasing exponentially. There is little concrete evidence, however, of efforts or policies that support the management of environmentally influenced mobility. Through discourse analysis using Q-methodology, this research aimed to scrutinize the standoff between opposing views under a fresh lens. One-hundred and ninety-seven experts from 49 nations completed an on-line survey asking them to sort, by level of agreement, 42 statements gleaned from the literature concerning the environment-mobility nexus. Four very different discourses emerged: determined humanists, benevolent pragmatists, cynical protectionists, and critical realists. The complexity of these discourses helps explain the stalemate while confirming the inappropriateness of one-sided terminology and linear quantifications. Despite diametrically opposed viewpoints, experts unanimously agree that human mobility is connected to environmental change. Dissection of these social perspectives builds a new foundation for the Rio?20 analysis and policy deliberations related to environmentally influenced human mobility.

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Drought and declining reservoirs: Comparing media discourse in Arizona and New Mexico, 2002–2004

Cited by 40 publications

References 43 publications

Debates—Perspectives on socio‐hydrology: Socio‐hydrologic modeling: Tradeoffs, hypothesis testing, and validation

Debates—Perspectives on socio‐hydrology: Socio‐hydrologic modeling: Tradeoffs, hypothesis testing, and validation

Drought episodes in the Czech Republic and their potential effects in agriculture

Environment and Mobility: A View from Four Discourses

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