Lessons from the 2018–2019 European droughts: a collective need for unifying drought risk management

Veit Blauhut; Michael Stoelzle; Lauri Ahopelto; Manuela I Brunner; Doris Wendt; Claudia  Teutschbein; Vytautas  Akstinas; Sigrid Bakke; Lucy Barker; Lenka Bartošová; Agrita Briede; Camerlo Cammalleri; Ksenija  Cindrić Kalin; Lucia De Stefano; Miriam Fendekova; David Finger; Marijke Huysmans; Mirjana Ivanov; Jaak Jaagus; Jiri Jakubínský; Svitlana Krakovska; Gregor Laaha; Monika Lakatos; Kiril Manevski; Mathias  Neumann Andersen; Nina Nikolova; Marzena Osuch; Pieter R. van Oel; Kalina Radeva; Renata Romanowicz; Elena Toth; Mirek Trnka; Marko Urošev; Julia  Urquijo Reguera; Eric Sauquet; Aleksandra  Stevkov; Lena M. Tallaksen; Iryna Trofimova; Anne Van Loon; Michelle T.H. van Vliet; Jean-Philippe Vidal; Niko Wanders; Michi Werner; Patrick Willems; Nenad Živković

doi:10.5194/nhess-22-2201-2022

Lessons from the 2018–2019 European droughts: a collective need for unifying drought risk management

Veit Blauhut^*, Michael Stoelzle, Lauri Ahopelto, Manuela I Brunner, Doris Wendt, Claudia Teutschbein, Vytautas Akstinas, Sigrid Bakke, Lucy Barker, Lenka Bartošová, Agrita Briede, Camerlo Cammalleri, Ksenija Cindrić Kalin, Lucia De Stefano, Miriam Fendekova, David Finger, Marijke Huysmans, Mirjana Ivanov, Jaak Jaagus, Jiri JakubínskýSvitlana Krakovska, Gregor Laaha, Monika Lakatos, Kiril Manevski, Mathias Neumann Andersen, Nina Nikolova, Marzena Osuch, Pieter R. van Oel, Kalina Radeva, Renata Romanowicz, Elena Toth, Mirek Trnka, Marko Urošev, Julia Urquijo Reguera, Eric Sauquet, Aleksandra Stevkov, Lena M. Tallaksen, Iryna Trofimova, Anne Van Loon, Michelle T.H. van Vliet, Jean-Philippe Vidal, Niko Wanders, Michi Werner, Patrick Willems, Nenad Živković

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Drought events and their impacts vary spatially and temporally due to diverse pedo-climatic and hydrologic conditions, as well as variations in exposure and vulnerability, such as demographics and response actions. While hazard severity and frequency of past drought events have been studied in detail, little is known about the effect of drought management strategies on the actual impacts and how the hazard is perceived by relevant stakeholders. In a continental study, we characterised and assessed the impacts and the perceptions of two recent drought events (2018 and 2019) in Europe and examined the relationship between management strategies and drought perception, hazard, and impact. The study was based on a pan-European survey involving national representatives from 28 countries and relevant stakeholders responding to a standard questionnaire. The survey focused on collecting information on stakeholders' perceptions of drought, impacts on water resources and beyond, water availability, and current drought management strategies on national and regional scales. The survey results were compared with the actual drought hazard information registered by the European Drought Observatory (EDO) for 2018 and 2019. The results highlighted high diversity in drought perception across different countries and in values of the implemented drought management strategies to alleviate impacts by increasing national and sub-national awareness and resilience. The study identifies an urgent need to further reduce drought impacts by constructing and implementing a European macro-level drought governance approach, such as a directive, which would strengthen national drought management and mitigate damage to human and natural assets.

Original language	English
Article number	22
Pages (from-to)	2201–2217
Number of pages	17
Journal	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Volume	22
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2201-2022
Publication status	Published - 29 Jun 2022

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Financial support. The project is supported by the Wassernetzw-erk Baden-Württemberg (Water Research Network of the State Baden-Württemberg), which is funded by the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg (Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State Baden-Württemberg) (grant no. AZ. 7532.21/2.1.6) and Maa-ja vesitekniikan tuki ry foundation. Doris E. Wendt acknowledges her support as part of the NERC-funded Groundwater Drought Initiative (NE/R004994/1). Lucy J. Barker was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/R016429/1) as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. The contributions of Mirek Trnka, Lenka Bartošová, and Jaak Jaagus have been supported by SustES – Adaptation strategies for sustainable ecosystem services and food security under adverse environmental conditions (CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000797).

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Blauhut, V., Stoelzle, M., Ahopelto, L., Brunner, M. I., Wendt, D., Teutschbein, C., Akstinas, V., Bakke, S., Barker, L., Bartošová, L., Briede, A., Cammalleri, C., Cindrić Kalin, K., De Stefano, L., Fendekova, M., Finger, D., Huysmans, M., Ivanov, M., Jaagus, J., ... Živković, N. (2022). Lessons from the 2018–2019 European droughts: a collective need for unifying drought risk management. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22(6), 2201–2217. Article 22. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2201-2022

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