A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions
Drought is an inescapable reality in many regions, including much of the western United States. With climate change, droughts are predicted to intensify and occur more frequently, making the imperative for drought management even greater. Many diverse actors – including private landowners, business...
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| author | Amanda E. Cravens Jen Henderson Jack Friedman Nina Burkardt Ashley E. Cooper Tonya Haigh Michael Hayes Jamie McEvoy Stephanie Paladino Adam K. Wilke Hailey Wilmer |
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| description | Drought is an inescapable reality in many regions, including much of the western United States. With climate change, droughts are predicted to intensify and occur more frequently, making the imperative for drought management even greater. Many diverse actors – including private landowners, business owners, scientists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and managers and policymakers within tribal, local, state, and federal government agencies – play multiple, often overlapping roles in preparing for and responding to drought. Managing water is, of course, one of the most important roles that humans play in both mitigating and responding to droughts; but, focusing only on “water managers” or “water management” fails to capture key elements related to the broader category of drought management. The respective roles played by those managing drought (as distinct from water managers), the interactions among them, and the consequences in particular contexts, are not well understood. Our team synthesized insights from 10 in-depth case studies to understand key facets of decision making about drought preparedness and response. We present a typology with four elements that collectively describe how decisions about drought preparedness and response are made (context and objective for a decision; actors responsible; choice being made or action taken; and how decisions interact with and influence other decisions). The typology provides a framework for system-level understanding of how and by whom complex decisions about drought management are made. Greater system-level understanding helps decision makers, program and research funders, and scientists to identify constraints to and opportunities for action, to learn from the past, and to integrate ecological impacts, thereby facilitating social learning among diverse participants in drought preparedness and response. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fcd73b365c8f4d46b2cfb18c3589e76d2022-12-21T22:33:57ZengElsevierWeather and Climate Extremes2212-09472021-09-0133100362A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actionsAmanda E. Cravens0Jen Henderson1Jack Friedman2Nina Burkardt3Ashley E. Cooper4Tonya Haigh5Michael Hayes6Jamie McEvoy7Stephanie Paladino8Adam K. Wilke9Hailey Wilmer10U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, 2150 Centre Avenue Building C, Fort Collins, CO, 80526, USA; Corresponding author.CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, 216 UCB, Boulder, CO, 80309, USAUniversity of Oklahoma, Center for Applied Social Research, 5 Partners Place Suite 4100, Norman, OK, 73019, USAU.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, 2150 Centre Avenue Building C, Fort Collins, CO, 80526, USAU.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, 2150 Centre Avenue Building C, Fort Collins, CO, 80526, USANational Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 3310 Holdrege Street, Lincoln, NE, 68583, USAUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, 101 Hardin Hall, Lincoln, NE, 68583, USAMontana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, 226 Traphagen Hall, Bozeman, MT, 59715, USAMeroLek Research, USAU.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, 2150 Centre Avenue Building C, Fort Collins, CO, 80526, USAUSDA-Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 11175 Auke Lake Way, Juneau, AK, 99801, USADrought is an inescapable reality in many regions, including much of the western United States. With climate change, droughts are predicted to intensify and occur more frequently, making the imperative for drought management even greater. Many diverse actors – including private landowners, business owners, scientists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and managers and policymakers within tribal, local, state, and federal government agencies – play multiple, often overlapping roles in preparing for and responding to drought. Managing water is, of course, one of the most important roles that humans play in both mitigating and responding to droughts; but, focusing only on “water managers” or “water management” fails to capture key elements related to the broader category of drought management. The respective roles played by those managing drought (as distinct from water managers), the interactions among them, and the consequences in particular contexts, are not well understood. Our team synthesized insights from 10 in-depth case studies to understand key facets of decision making about drought preparedness and response. We present a typology with four elements that collectively describe how decisions about drought preparedness and response are made (context and objective for a decision; actors responsible; choice being made or action taken; and how decisions interact with and influence other decisions). The typology provides a framework for system-level understanding of how and by whom complex decisions about drought management are made. Greater system-level understanding helps decision makers, program and research funders, and scientists to identify constraints to and opportunities for action, to learn from the past, and to integrate ecological impacts, thereby facilitating social learning among diverse participants in drought preparedness and response.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094721000542Drought managementDrought planningMental modelsSocial scienceHuman dimensionsWestern United States |
| spellingShingle | Amanda E. Cravens Jen Henderson Jack Friedman Nina Burkardt Ashley E. Cooper Tonya Haigh Michael Hayes Jamie McEvoy Stephanie Paladino Adam K. Wilke Hailey Wilmer A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions Weather and Climate Extremes Drought management Drought planning Mental models Social science Human dimensions Western United States |
| title | A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions |
| title_full | A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions |
| title_fullStr | A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions |
| title_full_unstemmed | A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions |
| title_short | A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions |
| title_sort | typology of drought decision making synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions |
| topic | Drought management Drought planning Mental models Social science Human dimensions Western United States |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094721000542 |
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