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DOI	10.1002/wcc.761
	Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects
	Savelli, Elisa; Rusca, Maria; Cloke, Hannah; Di Baldassarre, Giuliano
发表日期	2022
ISSN	1757-7780
EISSN	1757-7799
卷号	13 期号:3 页码:25
英文摘要	Human activities have increasingly intensified the severity, frequency, and negative impacts of droughts in several regions across the world. This trend has led to broader scientific conceptualizations of drought risk that account for human actions and their interplays with natural systems. This review focuses on physical and engineering sciences to examine the way and extent to which these disciplines account for social processes in relation to the production and distribution of drought risk. We conclude that this research has significantly progressed in terms of recognizing the role of humans in reshaping drought risk and its socioenvironmental impacts. We note an increasing engagement with and contribution to understanding vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation patterns. Moreover, by advancing (socio)hydrological models, developing numerical indexes, and enhancing data processing, physical and engineering scientists have determined the extent of human influences in the propagation of drought hazard. However, these studies do not fully capture the complexities of anthropogenic transformations. Very often, they portray society as homogeneous, and decision-making processes as apolitical, thereby concealing the power relations underlying the production of drought and the uneven distribution of its impacts. The resistance in engaging explicitly with politics and social power-despite their major role in producing anthropogenic drought-can be attributed to the strong influence of positivist epistemologies in engineering and physical sciences. We suggest that an active engagement with critical social sciences can further theorizations of drought risk by shedding light on the structural and historical systems of power that engender every socioenvironmental transformation. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Disciplinary Perspectives
英文关键词	anthropogenic drought; climate change; resilience and adaptation; risk; hazard; and vulnerability; society
学科领域	Environmental Studies; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000753954700001
来源期刊	WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/272903
作者单位	Uppsala University; Centre of Natural Hazards & Disaster Science (CNDS); University of Manchester; University of Reading; University of Reading
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Savelli, Elisa,Rusca, Maria,Cloke, Hannah,et al. Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects[J],2022,13(3):25.
APA	Savelli, Elisa,Rusca, Maria,Cloke, Hannah,&Di Baldassarre, Giuliano.(2022).Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects.WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE,13(3),25.
MLA	Savelli, Elisa,et al."Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects".WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE 13.3(2022):25.