| 项目编号: | NE/L010038/1
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| 项目名称: | Drought Impacts: Vulnerability thresholds in monitoring and Early-warning Research |
| 作者: | Jamie Hannaford
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| 承担单位: | NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
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| 批准年: | 2012
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| 开始日期: | 2013-01-09
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| 结束日期: | 2017-30-06
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| 资助金额: | GBP242339
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| 资助来源: | UK-NERC
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| 项目类别: | Research Grant
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| 国家: | UK
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Climate & Climate Change 
; (40%)
; Geosciences 
; (40%)
; Human Geography 
; (10%)
; Terrest. & freshwater environ. 
; (10%)
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| 英文摘要: | Drought events pose a threat to water security in virtually every climate zone and to every water use sector. Although little can be done in the short term to prevent a drought, actions can be taken to reduce the vulnerability of society to the event, including the development of drought monitoring and early warning (M&EW) systems. There have been few attempts to assess how relevant widely-used physical indicators are for capturing drought severity in a way that reflects the complexity of inter-related human and environmental causes, effects and impacts, and such impacts have not been adequately incorporated into existing drought M&EW systems. This project seeks to fill this gap by improving the conceptual and methodological link between natural (hydrometeorological) drought characterisation and environmental and socio-economic impacts, in order to inform the development of enhanced drought M&EW systems and other risk management strategies. An innovative methodological approach will combine the use of hydro-meteorological and socio-economic data, including impact reports, alongside social learning approaches designed to incorporate stakeholders' views and experiences of drought. The team will use existing datasets of drought indices typically incorporated in monitoring systems, but also extensive, yet under-utilized, databases on drought impacts (US Drought Reporter, EU project DROUGHT R&SPI database). In a series of workshops with water suppliers and other stakeholders, the applicability of M&EW systems will be explored in strategy games and the results will feed back into analysis and design. This approach will support the iterative development of novel approaches for targeted M&EW for the case study sector of public water supply. The direct involvement of some partners in operational drought monitoring and robust assessment of the potentials and opportunities under different prerequisites will guarantee the project's impact and thus help move towards the goal of developing new practices enabling communities to build capacity for resilience to drought. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/102570
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| Appears in Collections: | 科学计划与规划
气候变化与战略
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作者单位: | NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
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Jamie Hannaford. Drought Impacts: Vulnerability thresholds in monitoring and Early-warning Research. 2012-01-01.
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