Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects

E Savelli, M Rusca, H Cloke… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities have increasingly intensified the severity, frequency, and negative impacts
of droughts in several regions across the world. This trend has led to broader scientific …

Increased economic drought impacts in Europe with anthropogenic warming

G Naumann, C Cammalleri, L Mentaschi… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
While climate change will alter the distribution of water in time and space, quantifications of
drought risk under global warming remain uncertain. Here, we show that in Europe, drought …

Uncovering the dynamics of multi‐sector impacts of hydrological extremes: A methods overview

MM de Brito, J Sodoge, A Fekete… - Earth's …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrological extremes, such as droughts and floods, can trigger a complex web of
compound and cascading impacts (CCI) due to interdependencies between coupled natural …

Near-real-time drought impact assessment: a text mining approach on the 2018/19 drought in Germany

MM de Brito, C Kuhlicke, A Marx - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Contemporary drought impact assessments have been constrained due to data availability,
leading to an incomplete representation of impact trends. To address this, we present a …

[HTML][HTML] Compound and cascading drought impacts do not happen by chance: A proposal to quantify their relationships

MM de Brito - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The understanding of compounding and cascading impacts is becoming increasingly central
to the risk reduction debate as hazard consequences are strongly coupled. Still, studies on …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of agricultural drought on barley and wheat yield: a comparative case study of Spain and Germany

P Benito-Verdugo, J Martínez-Fernández… - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Given the growing interest in drought impacts on crops, this work studied the impact of
agricultural drought on wheat and barley during the period 2001–2020. The study was …

Significant relationships between drought indicators and impacts for the 2018–2019 drought in Germany

A Shyrokaya, G Messori, I Pechlivanidis… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite the scientific progress in drought detection and forecasting, it remains challenging to
accurately predict the corresponding impact of a drought event. This is due to the complex …

Relating drought indices to impacts reported in newspaper articles

P O'Connor, C Murphy, T Matthews… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Relating drought indicators and real‐world impacts is fundamental for understanding and
addressing drought vulnerability. We link drought indices and impacts from newspapers …

[HTML][HTML] Is there a coherence in observed and projected changes in riverine low flow indices across Central Europe?

M Piniewski, MR Eini, S Chattopadhyay… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Central Europe, a region composed of Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland,
Slovakia and Slovenia, occupying over 1 million km 2 and inhabited by> 150 million people …

[HTML][HTML] A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions

AE Cravens, J Henderson, J Friedman… - Weather and Climate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drought is an inescapable reality in many regions, including much of the western United
States. With climate change, droughts are predicted to intensify and occur more frequently …