Drought in the Anthropocene

van Loon, Anne F.; Gleeson, Tom; Clark, Julian; van Dijk, Albert I.J.M.; Stahl, Kerstin; Hannaford, Jamie; Di Baldassarre, Giuliano; Teuling, Adriaan J.; Tallaksen, Lena M.; Uijlenhoet, Remko; Hannah, David M.; Sheffield, Justin; Svoboda, Mark; Verbeiren, Boud; Wagener, Thorsten; Rangecroft, Sally; Wanders, Niko; van Lanen, Henny A.J.

van Loon, Anne F.; Gleeson, Tom; Clark, Julian; van Dijk, Albert I.J.M.; Stahl, Kerstin; Hannaford, Jamie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5256-3310; Di Baldassarre, Giuliano; Teuling, Adriaan J.; Tallaksen, Lena M.; Uijlenhoet, Remko; Hannah, David M.; Sheffield, Justin; Svoboda, Mark; Verbeiren, Boud; Wagener, Thorsten; Rangecroft, Sally; Wanders, Niko; van Lanen, Henny A.J.. 2016 Drought in the Anthropocene. Nature Geoscience, 9 (2). 89-91. 10.1038/ngeo2646

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Abstract

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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