Sponsor
Open Access was funded by Tsinghua University and GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Published In
Coevolution and Prediction of Coupled Human-Water Systems
ISBN
978-0-443-41736-8
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
11-19-2025
Subjects
Droughts -- Environmental aspects, Droughts -- Social aspects, Human ecology—Hydrological aspects, Water-supply -- Management, Resilience (Ecology), Hazard mitigation -- Research
Abstract
Advancing our understanding of the processes linking social and hydrological systems is an essential step toward managing drought risk and increasing drought resilience. Over the past decade, numerous studies have advanced our understanding of human influences on drought propagation, drought responses and their immediate and long-term consequences, and decisions and conditions leading to drought resilience. These advances have been achieved through: (1) the development of datasets that document drought progression, hazards, risk, vulnerability, and adaptation capacity; (2) creation of new modeling methods and application of models to build and test theory; and (3) empirical analyses from in depth case studies to large comparative analyses. While these categories are not mutually exclusive, they provide a way to track scientific progress, build a more fundamental understanding of human-drought systems to advance our capacity to generalize findings, and overcome systematic silos to develop more integrated drought management strategies that can span traditional sectoral and jurisdictional boundaries. The advances to date have enabled researchers to identify common phenomena describing human-drought interactions across space and time. Research on the influence of human actions on drought propagation sets the foundation for further work that can build generalized knowledge about the interrelationships within the human-drought system, across related systems, and in connection with other hazards in the context of many types of human action.
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Copyright 2025.
DOI
10.1016/B978-0-443-41736-8.00001-4
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/44305
Citation Details
Garcia, M., Koebele, E., Haeffner, M., Van Loon, A. F., Ajami, N., Teutschbein, C., … Burcu, T. (2025). Human-drought systems : Chapter 7. In Coevolution and Prediction of Coupled Human-Water Systems : A Sociohydrologic Synthesis of Change in Hydrology and Society (1st ed., pp. 271--320). https://doi.org/10.3030/101219060
Description
Appeared as Chapter 7 in Coevolution and Prediction of Coupled Human-Water Systems. A Sociohydrologic Synthesis of Change in Hydrology and Society. Published by Elsevier.
Portland State University Professor Melissa Haeffner co-editor.