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Drought management is inefficient because feedbacks between drought and people are not fully understood. In this human-influenced era, we need to rethink the concept of drought to include the human role in mitigating and enhancing drought.

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Figure 1: Drought propagation in the Anthropocene.

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Figure 2: Hypothetical schematic of the distinction between climate-induced drought, human-induced drought and human-modified drought.

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  1. Water Science Research Group, School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
    Anne F. Van Loon, David M. Hannah & Sally Rangecroft
  2. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada
    Tom Gleeson
  3. Human Geography Research Group, School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
    Julian Clark
  4. Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
    Albert I. J. M. Van Dijk
  5. Hydrology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Germany
    Kerstin Stahl
  6. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
    Jamie Hannaford
  7. Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden
    Giuliano Di Baldassarre
  8. Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
    Adriaan J. Teuling, Remko Uijlenhoet & Henny A. J. Van Lanen
  9. Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway
    Lena M. Tallaksen
  10. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, USA
    Justin Sheffield & Niko Wanders
  11. National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA
    Mark Svoboda
  12. Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
    Boud Verbeiren
  13. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, UK
    Thorsten Wagener
  14. Cabot Institute, University of Bristol, UK
    Thorsten Wagener

Authors

  1. Anne F. Van Loon
  2. Tom Gleeson
  3. Julian Clark
  4. Albert I. J. M. Van Dijk
  5. Kerstin Stahl
  6. Jamie Hannaford
  7. Giuliano Di Baldassarre
  8. Adriaan J. Teuling
  9. Lena M. Tallaksen
  10. Remko Uijlenhoet
  11. David M. Hannah
  12. Justin Sheffield
  13. Mark Svoboda
  14. Boud Verbeiren
  15. Thorsten Wagener
  16. Sally Rangecroft
  17. Niko Wanders
  18. Henny A. J. Van Lanen

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Correspondence toAnne F. Van Loon.

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Van Loon, A., Gleeson, T., Clark, J. et al. Drought in the Anthropocene.Nature Geosci 9, 89–91 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2646

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