Repository of Drought Event Impacts Across the Danube Catchment Countries Between 1981 and 2016 Using Publicly Available Sources

Drought directly and indirectly affects human society in a number of ways. In many regions of the world climate change will exasperate the effects of droughts, affect national economies more intensely. The main aim of this article was to catalogue and analyze the drought impacts in the 11 Central an...

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Published in:	Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 925 - 938
Main Authors:	Jakubínský, Jiří, Bláhová, Monika, Bartošová, Lenka, Steinerová, Klára, Balek, Jan, Dížková, Petra, Semerádová, Daniela, Alexandru, Daniel, Bardarska, Galia, Bokal, Sabina, Borojević, Goran, Bucur, Andreea, Kalin, Ksenija Cindrić, Barbu, Anda Claudia, Debre, Barbara, Đorđević, Milica, Đurić, Ines, Mircea, Bianca Florina, Gatarić, Sandra, Gregorič, Gregor, Hasenauer, Stefan, Ivanov, Mirjana, Kircsi, Andrea, Labudová, Lívia, Turňa, Maroš, Marinović, Ivana, Marković, Mihajlo, Mateescu, Elena, Oblišar, Gal, Popescu, Andreea, Srđević, Zorica, Savić-Šljivić, Tatjana, Supić, Dejan, Sušnik, Andreja, Pazin, Natasa, Drljevic, Miras, Kuc, Tonka, Mitrovic, Luka, Micev, Slavica, Wagner, Wolfgang, Eitzinger, Josef, Daneu, Vojko, Blauhut, Veit, Stahl, Kerstin, Trnka, Miroslav
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Mendel University Press 2019
Subjects:	agriculture climate change Danube basin drought impact water stress
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Summary:	Drought directly and indirectly affects human society in a number of ways. In many regions of the world climate change will exasperate the effects of droughts, affect national economies more intensely. The main aim of this article was to catalogue and analyze the drought impacts in the 11 Central and South Eastern European states located in the Danube river basin. The identification of dry episodes was based on information from publicly available sources, namely, newspaper and journal articles that reported drought impacts. Information on drought impact occurrences was classified into one of five defined categories in which the drought impact report was most clearly manifested (i.e., agriculture, forestry, soil systems, wildfires and hydrology). In terms of the spatial distribution of drought impacts, individual recorded events were analyzed at the level of EU NUTS regions (or their equivalent in non‑EU countries). The analysis highlights country‑specific vulnerability to drought. Furthermore, gradual increases in drought events and the number of reported impacts were identified, which was particularly evident in the agricultural sector.
ISSN:	1211-8516 2464-8310
DOI:	10.11118/actaun201967040925