PA11G:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Drought and Drought Decisions Posters


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Session ID#: 48923

Session Description:
Across the world, there has been significant investment in understanding social science dynamics of drought in particular locations, yet we still lack understanding of how human dimensions of drought are similar and different across cases and regions. Shifts in winter precipitation from snow to rain, early snowmelt, rapid onset of drought, more intense but less frequent rainfall events, declining groundwater levels, and other alterations to the hydrologic cycle are contributing to how communities experience drought under a changing climate.

How do people define and experience drought? What are the types of drought decisions and which actors make these decisions? To what extent do decision makers enable or constrain each other? This session presents findings of drought impacts, information use, adaptive capacity, and institutional context that represent interdisciplinary perspectives (social-ecological systems, institutional analysis, water resource management, political ecology, rural sociology, etc.) and scale from place-based analyses to broader analytical frameworks.

Primary Convener:  Aparna Bamzai, USGS North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Fort Collins, United States
Conveners:  Amanda E Cravens, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Corvallis, United States, Dennis S Ojima, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Adam Wilke, USGS Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Aparna Bamzai, USGS North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Fort Collins, United States
Chairs:  Aparna Bamzai, USGS North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Fort Collins, United States and Amanda E Cravens, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Corvallis, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Aparna Bamzai, USGS North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Fort Collins, United States
Co-Organized with:
Public Affairs, Global Environmental Change, and Biogeosciences

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

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