Brief communication: lessons learned and experiences gained from building up a global survey on societal resilience to changing droughts

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de Macedo MB, Benso MR, Sass KS, et al., (2024) Brief communication: lessons learned and experiences gained from building up a global survey on societal resilience to changing droughts. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Volume 24, Issue 6, July 2024 pp. 2165-2173

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This paper describes the process of creating a global survey of experts to evaluate drought resilience indicators. The lessons learned include five main points: (1) the heterogeneity in the conceptual background should be minimized before the construction of the survey; (2) large numbers of indicators decrease the engagement of respondents through the survey, and ways to apportion indicators whilst maintaining reliability should be considered; (3) it is necessary to design the survey to balance response rate and accuracy; (4) the survey questions should have clear statements with a logical and flowing structure; and (5) reaching experts with different domain experience and representing different regions is difficult but crucial to minimize biased results.

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)