World Drought Atlas 2024
This Atlas is a visual resource aiming at conveying in an intuitive and direct way all dimensions of drought.
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World Drought Atlas 2024
(156.23 MB - PDF)- Author details
- Toreti, Andrea; Tsegai, Daniel; Maurer, Tessa; Cremonese, Edoardo; Rossi, Lauro; Wens, Marthe; de Moel, Hans; Sabino Siemons, Anne-Sophie; Acosta Navarro, Juan; Hrast Essenfelder, Arthur; Volpi, Danila; Cotti, Davide; Sparkes, Edward; Hagenlocher, Michael.
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- ISBN 978-92-68-21788-7
The Atlas provides an overview of drought as a phenomenon, its impacts on critical systems, concrete case studies worldwide, and examples of risk management and adaptation. The Atlas is not intended to be all encompassing but to frame challenges and responses in such a way that policymakers feel equipped to take steps and actions towards drought resilience and to seek out further information where needed.
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- Information and views set out in this community page can also be those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Commission.
Hazard types
Drought
DRM Phases
Preparedness
Geographic focus
Global
Sectors
Situational awareness
Risk drivers
Changing security landscape
Climate change
Environmental degradation