Drought hazards and stakeholder perception: Unraveling the interlinkages between drought severity, perceived impacts, preparedness and management

Abstract

<p>The future risk for droughts and water shortages calls for substantial efforts by authorities to adapt at local levels. Understanding their perception of drought hazards, risk and vulnerability can help to identify drivers of and barriers to drought risk planning and management in a changing climate at the local level. We present a novel interdisciplinary drought case study in a Nordic country that integrates soft data from a nation-wide survey among more than 100 local practitioners and hard data based on hydrological measurements to provide a holistic assessment of the links between drought severity and the perceived levels of drought severity, impacts, preparedness and management for two consecutive drought events. We highlight challenges for drought risk planning and management in a changing climate at the local level and elaborate on how improved understanding of local practitioners to plan for climate change adaptation can be achieved.</p>

Drought Stress Under a Nano-Farming Approach: A Review

“…1 (2024) 141 Drought has serious impacts on water resources which has led to numerous studies focused on integrated approaches for water resource management under drought (Alhama et al 2020;Alam et al 2023;Wang et al 2023b). This approach to manage water resources under drought has been employed in many regions such as Southern Algeria (Zegait et al 2023), Saudi Arabia (Abd El-Hamid and Alshehri 2023), Eastern India (Biswas et al 2023), Italy (Rossi and Peres 2023), North America (Asif et al 2023), Sweden (Teutschbein et al 2023), and Iran (Khani et al 2023).…”