Methods to Assess Costs of Drought Damages and Policies for Drought Mitigation and Adaptation: Review and Recommendations

Logar, Ivana; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den

doi:10.1007/s11269-012-0119-9

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“…Corti et al, 2009Corti et al, , 2011. Moreover, the review by Logar and van den Bergh (2013) concludes that market valuation techniques (i.e. market prices, production function, avoided costs, replacement or repair costs) are the most suitable methods for assessing direct tangible costs of droughts.…”

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Review article: Assessing the costs of natural hazards – state of the art and knowledge gaps

Meyer

Becker

Markantonis

et al. 2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Efficiently reducing natural hazard risks requires a thorough understanding of the costs of natural hazards. Current methods to assess these costs employ a variety of terminologies and approaches for different types of natural hazards and different impacted sectors. This may impede efforts to ascertain comprehensive and comparable cost figures. In order to strengthen the role of cost assessments in the development of integrated natural hazard management, a review of existing cost assessment approaches was undertaken. This review considers droughts, floods, coastal and Alpine hazards, and examines different cost types, namely direct tangible damages, losses due to business interruption, indirect damages, intangible effects, and the costs of risk mitigation. This paper provides an overview of the state-of-the-art cost assessment approaches and discusses key knowledge gaps. It shows that the application of cost assessments in practice is often incomplete and biased, as direct costs receive a relatively large amount of attention, while intangible and indirect effects are rarely considered. Furthermore, all parts of cost assessment entail considerable uncertainties due to insufficient or highly aggregated data sources, along with a lack of knowledge about the processes leading to damage and thus the appropriate models required. Recommendations are provided on how to reduce or handle these uncertainties by improving data sources and cost assessment methods. Further recommendations address how risk dynamics due to climate and socio-economic change can be better considered, how costs are distributed and risks transferred, and in what ways cost assessment can function as part of decision support

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Review article: Assessing the costs of natural hazards – state of the art and knowledge gaps

Meyer

Becker

Markantonis

et al. 2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…Since drought is a slow-onset "creeping" hazard (Gillette, 1950) with multifaceted impacts on different domains and sectors it is less visible than, for instance, earthquakes or floods. Apart from some exceptions (e.g., agricultural yield statistics) it is challenging to find information on the variety of drought impacts, which are mainly non-structural (not associated with physical damages to buildings, infrastructure, and other assets) and difficult to quantify in monetary terms (Logar and van den Bergh, 2013). To address these shortcomings, an online database for collecting user-based reports on drought impacts was launched in the United States some years ago (US Drought Impact Reporter (DIR); Wilhite et al, 2007).…”

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Exploring the link between drought indicators and impacts

Bachmair

Kohn

Stahl

2015

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Current drought monitoring and early warning systems use different indicators for monitoring drought conditions and apply different indicator thresholds and rules for assigning drought intensity classes or issue warnings or alerts. Nevertheless, there is little knowledge on the meaning of different hydro-meteorologic indicators for impact occurrence on the ground. To date, there have been very few attempts to systematically characterize the indicator-impact relationship owing to sparse and patchy data on drought impacts. The newly established European Drought Impact report Inventory (EDII) offers the possibility to investigate this linkage. The aim of this study was to explore the link between hydro-meteorologic indicators and drought impacts for the case study area Germany and thus to test the potential of qualitative impact data for evaluating the performance of drought indicators. As drought indicators two climatological drought indices -the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) -as well as streamflow and groundwater level percentiles were selected. Linkage was assessed though data visualization, extraction of indicator values concurrent with impact onset, and correlation analysis between monthly time series of indicator and impact data at the federal state level, and between spatial patterns for selected drought events. The analysis clearly revealed a significant moderate to strong correlation for some states and drought events allowing for an intercomparison of the performance of different drought indicators. Important findings were strongest correlation for intermediate accumulation periods of SPI and SPEI, a slightly better performance of SPEI versus SPI, and a similar performance of streamflow percentiles to SPI in many cases. Apart from these commonalities, the analysis also exposed differences among federal states and drought events, suggesting that the linkage is time variant and region specific to some degree. Concerning "thresholds" for drought impact onset, i.e. indicator values concurrent with past impact onsets, we found that no single "best" threshold value can be identified but impacts occur within a range of indicator values. Nevertheless, the median of the threshold distributions showed differences between northern/northeastern versus southern/southwestern federal states, and among drought events. While the findings strongly depend on data and may change with a growing number of EDII entries in the future, this study clearly demonstrates the feasibility of evaluating hydro-meteorologic variables with text-based impact reports and highlights the value of impact reporting as a tool for monitoring drought conditions.

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“…There is an urgent and dire need to progress on various fronts of drought mitigation such as early warning and forecasting, building the resilience of the societies, shortterm relief efforts, long-term planning and capacity building (e.g. Calow et al, 2010;Clarke et al, 2012;Dondero, 1985;Falkenmark and Rockström, 2008;GFDRR, 2011;IFAD, 2010IFAD, , 2011aLogar and van den Bergh, 2013;Mishra and Singh, 2010;Msangi, 2004;Sehmi and Kundzewicz, 1997;Tadesse et al, 2008;Tøttrup et al, 2012;UNISDR, 2004UNISDR, , 2010Vicento-Serrano et al, 2012;Vogel et al, 2010;World Bank and GFDRR, 2010).…”

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A review of droughts on the African continent: a geospatial and long-term perspective

Masih

Maskey

Mussá

et al. 2014

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. This paper presents a comprehensive review and analysis of the available literature and information on droughts to build a continental, regional and country level perspective on geospatial and temporal variation of droughts in Africa. The study is based on the review and analysis of droughts occurred during 1900-2013, as well as evidence available from past centuries based on studies on the lake sediment analysis, tree-ring chronologies and written and oral histories and future predictions from the global climate change models. Most of the studies based on instrumental records indicate that droughts have become more frequent, intense and widespread during the last 50 years. The extreme droughts of

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Methods to Assess Costs of Drought Damages and Policies for Drought Mitigation and Adaptation: Review and Recommendations

Cited by 111 publications

References 37 publications

Review article: Assessing the costs of natural hazards – state of the art and knowledge gaps

Review article: Assessing the costs of natural hazards – state of the art and knowledge gaps

Exploring the link between drought indicators and impacts

A review of droughts on the African continent: a geospatial and long-term perspective

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