Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects

Power relations & uneven distribution of risks should be considered explicitely: Society is not homogeneous, decisions are not apolitical.

CNDS Fellows, Elisa Savelli, Giuliano Di Baldassarre (Uppsala University), Maria Rusca (University of Manchester) and Hannah Cloke (University of Reading) have recently published a review of the physical and engineering sciences on the ways and extent to which they take into consideration the social processes in relation to the production and distribution of drought risk.

The article can be accessed on WIREs Climate Change website.