PA14B:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Drought and Drought Decisions I


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Session ID#: 57755

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

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]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Misunderstanding conservation agriculture: Challenges in communicating and measuring sustainable and drought-resilient farming (377840)
Kieran Findlater1, Milind Kandlikar2 and Terre Satterfield1, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, IRES, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Who, what, where, why, and how? A typology of drought decision making in the north central United States (379641)
Tyler A. Beeton and Shannon McNeeley, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Designing Drought Indicators (394521)
Adam J Purdy1, Joshua Fisher2, Jessie Kawata3, Gina Om4, Margaux Reynolds5, Zahin M Ali6, Justin Babikian7, Christiahn Roman7 and Munish Sikka8, (1)CSU Monterey Bay / NASA ARC-CREST, Seaside, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Independent Collaborator, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, United States, (5)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Carnegie Mellon Design, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (7)ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Emerging Disparities in Community Resilience to Drought Hazard in South-Central United States (421109)
Volodymyr Mihunov, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States
Identifying and Responding to Drought in the Coffee-Growing Regions of Northwestern Nicaragua (432003)
Iris T Stewart, Ph.D.1, Edwin P Maurer2, Christopher M Bacon3 and William Sundstrom3, (1)Santa Clara University, Environmental Studies and Sciences, Santa Clara, CA, United States, (2)Santa Clara University, Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering Department, Santa Clara, United States, (3)Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States
Does adapting increase adaptive capacity? A case study of decision-making patterns of South Platte River Basin water providers and implications (436609)
Amber Childress-Runyon, Fort Collins, CO, United States
A stakeholder-focused approach to characterising drought risk and adaptation pathways in the middle Himalaya (456642)
Nathan Daniel Forsythe, Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, Hayley J Fowler, Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Newcastle, United Kingdom, David Walker, Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, Magdalena Smigaj, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands and David Pritchard, Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Newcastle upon Tyne, CA, United Kingdom
Dynamics of socioeconomic drought for farmworkers and rural communities in California’s San Joaquin Valley (461390)
Christina Greene, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

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