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Advancing drought monitoring, prediction, and management capabilities: scientific workshop report

2020

The India-UK Water Centre (IUKWC) promotes cooperation and collaboration between the complementary priorities of NERC-MoES water security research. This report represents an overview of the participation, activities and conclusions of a Scientific Workshop held at Lancaster University, UK from the 18th to 20th September 2019, and convened by Professor Peter M. Atkinson of Lancaster University and Dr Vishnubhotla C. Chakravarthi, University of Hyderabad, India. It outlines the Workshop itself, provides some explanation of the goals of the Workshop and shows how the Workshop was structured to ensure coverage of the key elements and support the greatest amount of discussion. The report also details the delegates, the main topics covered by the delegates and the key points raised. Finally, the report gives the key themes arising from the discussion and some recommendations for the future. The report is intended for the workshop participants, members of the India-UK Water Centre Open Net...

Drought: understanding and reducing vulnerability through monitoring and early warning systems

2015

As part of the Belmont Forum funded international DRIVER research project on linking indicators to impacts to improve drought monitoring and early warning systems (MEWs), a stakeholder workshop was held on 17th March 2015 in Wallingford, UK. The workshop was attended by representatives of various UK organisations with an interest in drought and MEWs and DRIVER researchers from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UK), Open University (UK), University of Freiburg (Germany), National Drought Mitigation Center (USA) and CSIRO (Australia). The aims of the workshop were to introduce participants to the DRIVER project and recent RCUK drought projects; engage with stakeholders’ experiences, understandings and needs in relation to droughts; and identify needs for future MEWs. The design of the workshop was based on a commitment to social learning. It comprised a mix of presentations and interactive sessions using innovative techniques to develop collective insights, enabling participants t...

Drought Indicators: Monitoring, Forecasting and Early Warning at the Case Study Scale

2015

DROUGHT-R&SPI (Fostering European Drought Research and Science-Policy Interfacing) is a Collaborative Project funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Cooperation Work Programme 2011, Theme 6: Environment (including Climate Change, ENV.2011.1.3.2-2: Vulnerability and increased drought risk in Europe (Grant agreement no: 282769). The DROUGHT-R&SPI project started 01/10/2011 and will continue for 3 years.