Tackling Growing Drought Risks — The Need for a Systemic Perspective
Hagenlocher, Michael, Naumann, Gustavo, Meza, Isabel, Blauhut, Veit, Cotti, Davide, Doell, Petra, Ehlert, Katrin, Gaupp, Franziska, Van Loon, Anne, Marengo, Jose A., Rossi, Lauro, Sabino Siemons, Anne-Sophie, Siebert, Stefan, Tsehayu, Adebe Tadege, Toreti, Andrea, Tsegai, Daniel, Vera, Carolina, Vogt, Juergen and Wens, Marthe, (2023). Tackling Growing Drought Risks — The Need for a Systemic Perspective. Earth’s Future, 11(9), 1-10
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Sub-type Journal article Author Hagenlocher, Michael
Naumann, Gustavo
Meza, Isabel
Blauhut, Veit
Cotti, Davide
Doell, Petra
Ehlert, Katrin
Gaupp, Franziska
Van Loon, Anne
Marengo, Jose A.
Rossi, Lauro
Sabino Siemons, Anne-Sophie
Siebert, Stefan
Tsehayu, Adebe Tadege
Toreti, Andrea
Tsegai, Daniel
Vera, Carolina
Vogt, Juergen
Wens, MartheTitle Tackling Growing Drought Risks — The Need for a Systemic Perspective Appearing in Earth’s Future Volume 11 Issue No. 9 Publication Date 2023-09-12 Place of Publication Malden Publisher Wiley Periodicals LLC Start page 1 End page 10 Language eng Abstract In the last few years, the world has experienced numerous extreme droughts with adverse direct, cascading, and systemic impacts. Despite more frequent and severe events, drought risk assessment is still incipient compared to that of other meteorological and climate hazards. This is mainly due to the complexity of drought, the high level of uncertainties in its analysis, and the lack of community agreement on a common framework to tackle the problem. Here, we outline that to effectively assess and manage drought risks, a systemic perspective is needed. We propose a novel drought risk framework that highlights the systemic nature of drought risks, and show its operationalization using the example of the 2022 drought in Europe. This research emphasizes that solutions to tackle growing drought risks should not only consider the underlying drivers of drought risks for different sectors, systems or regions, but also be based on an understanding of sector/system interdependencies, feedbacks, dynamics, compounding and concurring hazards, as well as possible tipping points and globally and/or regionally networked risks. UNBIS Thesaurus RISK MANAGEMENT
CLIMATE CHANGEKeyword Hydrological extremes
Vulnerability
Cascading
Complex
FrameworkCopyright Holder United Nations University Copyright Year 2023 Copyright type Creative commons DOI 10.1029/2023EF003857 -
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