A report on “The future of water availability and use in the EU – A foresight study and policy options to address water scarcity” was published (Scholten et al. 2025). The report was prepared for, and addressed to, the Members…
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Lena Tallaksen was awarded the 2024 Dooge Medal (International Hydrology Prize) by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), UNESCO, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). She was recognized for her exceptional and groundbreaking contributions to advancing the understanding of…
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Around 1250 achievements have been reported by the IHP Family during UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme, phase VIII (IHP-VIII, 2014-2021) on “Water Security” (https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000391752). Most achievements were reported under the theme “Water-related disasters and hydrological change”. The FRIEND-Water flagship was a…
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The European Drought Risk Atlas (EDRA) (https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC135215) represents a significant advancement in impact-based drought assessment. It assists in the development and implementation of drought management and adaptation policies and actions. Following two different approaches, the atlas characterizes how drought hazard,…
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We recommend a new paper in review (discussion), on the 2022 drought in Europe which is available as a discussion paper in EGUsphere: EGUsphere – The 2022 Drought Needs to be a Turning Point for European Drought Risk Management
The Drought Resilience +10 Conference was held from 30 September to 2 October 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland, at the WMO Headquarters. The event brought together countries, experts, and practitioners to review progress and lessons learnt since the High-Level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP)…
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The GroundedExtremes project “Understanding and governing groundwater to reduce risk of hydrological extremes” (2024-2027) aims to investigate groundwater and hydrological extremes, and design improved groundwater management as a powerful adaptation strategy to both droughts and floods, avoiding long-term unintended consequences…
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A new Nature Scientific Report paper has been published by EDC members, Sigrid J. Bakke, Monica Ionita and Lena M. Tallaksen. You can find the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48861-4
We are excited to announce the publishing of the second edition of the textbook on ‘Hydrological Drought – Processes and Estimation Methods for Streamflow and Groundwater‘. It represents a major revision of the first edition, including many emerging drought topics.
New Paper from EDC memebers (Sigrid Jørgensen Bakke, Niko Wanders, Karin van der Wiel, and Lena Merete Tallaksen) about wildfire danger in Fennoscandia! The open-access paper is available at the following link: https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/23/65/2023/nhess-23-65-2023.html. Abstract Wildfires are recurrent natural hazards that…
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