Drought Risk Management in the Context of Climate Change
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2021) | Viewed by 8369
Special Issue Editors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With climate change, droughts are increasing in recurrence, severity, duration, and spatial extent. The drought risk will be one of the most important threats of this change, often in conjunction with other impacts such as temperature rise and changing ecosystems. This calls for an accelerated and improved fight against the devastating effects of droughts, which manifest themselves quite differently depending on the location including (agro-)ecosystems, water regime, welfare of people and nations, resilience mechanisms, etc. Since adaptation to climate change is receiving increasing attention, this is also a suitable moment to review the evidence of (changing) drought risks and drought risk management and identify knowledge, technological, political and implementation gaps to guide promising developments for the future.
Key elements of drought risk management must be reviewed: drought monitoring and early warning systems, vulnerability and impact assessments, impact mitigation, and drought response measures. Not least, coordination mechanisms are needed to make these elements synergistically work together.
This Special Issue of Atmosphere focuses on the need for enhanced drought risk management along the aforementioned elements. We seek research studies that examine a mix of technical, socio-economic, and planning approaches including methods and best practices on how to assess drought risk and early warning systems in the short, medium, and long term, with particular emphasis on climate change effects, drought vulnerability and impacts, mitigation measures, drought emergency response, and contingency planning. Manuscripts may focus on identifying ways and means for reliable drought impact data in order to generate information for decision makers and end users. We invite manuscripts that can bring together the necessary data for drought risk assessment, review existing data, identify data gaps, and recommend options for increasing the quality and availability of data, data needs and management systems, as well as the user interface. We also need papers that deal with technology transfer, capacity building, awareness raising at all levels, and coping mechanisms. We also wish to include innovative policy and technical instruments such as insurance options.
Cognizant of the differing impacts of droughts in various levels of countries’ economic development, papers can focus on the various categories of solution options in planning and implementing drought risk management. All too often, it is developing countries who bear the most serious consequences of droughts while they are least responsible for climate change and they have the minimum means to fight its impacts. However, high-income countries have recently started to be aware that they are vulnerable, less to food security but more to environmental degradation and economic losses. Thus, we invite potential contributors to be specific about the setting in which they argue if they are dealing with preparedness and response issues. This also calls for explicit thoughts about the necessary support and funding mechanisms for developing countries, including attribution research which could justify compensation through climate change funds.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 August 2021
Dr. Daniel Tsegai
Dr. Michael Bruentrup
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drought
- policy
- early warning
- resilience
- vulnerability
- hazard
- climate change
