Characterizing drought risk and impact
UNU-EHS scientists Dr. Michael Hagenlocher and Isabel Meza have recently been appointed Lead Authors (LAs) for the UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) Special Report on Droughts (GAR SR Drought) that is published by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
Meza, I., Siebert, S., Döll, P., Kusche, J., Herbert, C., Eyshi Rezaei, E., Nouri, H., Gerdener, H., Popat, E., Frischen, J., Naumann, G., Vogt, J. V., Walz, Y., Sebesvari, Z., and Hagenlocher, M. (2020). Global-scale drought risk assessment for agricultural systems. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 20, 695–712, DOI:10.5194/nhess-20-695-2020.
The 2nd Stakeholder Workshop of the GlobeDrought project was organised at UNU-EHS on the 20th and 21st of November 2019, inviting experts from JRC-GDO, UNCCD, and WWF to meet with members of the GlobeDrought consortium. It provided participants with the