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The UK Drought and Water Scarcity Research Programme is proud to announce its International Conference to be held at Pembroke College, Oxford University, over 20 and 21 March 2019. Droughts threaten societies, economies and ecosystems worldwide. They are costly natural…
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THe EDC coordinator Henny van Lanen has been guest at Radio GLD – studio guest in Arnhem, programme Coffee Time with Rob Kleijs, 20 August 2018, 09:00-13:00 hr (I was in the 2nd hour, 10:20-10:45 hr) https://www.omroepgelderland.nl/radio/programma/169794880/Op-de-koffie/aflevering/29895# The topic was…
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The EDC coordinator Henny van Lanen has been guest on BNR News radio, studio guest in Amsterdam, programme Ask Me Anything (with Jurgen Rayman), 24 July, 14:00-15:00 hr The topic was Heatwaves and drought (1st day with Tmax > 30…
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The 2017 Wiley award for the Top cited invited commentary published by Hydrological Processes in 2016 was awarded to a paper on drought written by several EDC members. The paper is: Hydrology needed to manage droughts: the 2015 European case….
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The report “Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2016” has been recently published by the European Environmental Agency (EEA). It is an indicator-based assessment of past and projected climate change and its impacts on ecosystems and society. It also…
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“Large rivers Africa – DAKAR_2nd flyer FRIENDS CONF2016”, Dakar (Senegal), 26th November – 03rd December 2016. The conference is organised by the UNESCO MEDFRIEND-Water group. There are themes on Low Flows, Global change, climate, hydrological regimes, extreme events, databases and…
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The IAHS Panta Rhei Working Group on Drought in the Anthropocene will have a workshop at the University of Birmingham, 19-21 September 2016. More information: Dr. Anne Van Loon ([email protected]).  

The project Benefit of Governance in Drought Adaptation is now reaching its end and leaves us with a legacy consisting of both concrete drought adaptation measures as well as a tool to investigate the social environment to improve implementation effectiveness….
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The European Drought Impact Report Inventory (EDII) and European Drought Reference (EDR) database are now available through a link under Resources (or by clicking here). The EDII allows the user to search reported drought impacts and submit new impact reports…
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