New research project on droughts approved: „Drought Impacts, Processes and Resilience: Making the Invisible Visible“

For the next five years an interdisciplinary team of researchers will be investigating the complexity of processes at the intersection of climate and land use, water systems and governance interactions – which have been occurring during droughts in the past.

With a combined expertise from the fields of hydrology, geography, ecology, law and policy and through conducting experiments and simulations, the insights about hidden impacts and neglected risks of the emerging hazard of drought will be made visible and accessible on an online platform.

The project is funded by the water research fund Baden-Württemberg and will start in January 2016.

More information about the future of water (German)