A framework for a joint hydro-meteorological-social analysis of drought

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dc.contributor.authorLange, Bettina
dc.contributor.authorHolman, Ian P.
dc.contributor.authorBloomfield, J. P.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-12T09:23:38Z
dc.date.available2017-01-12T09:23:38Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-11
dc.description.abstractThis article presents an innovative framework for analysing environmental governance challenges by focusing on their Drivers, Responses and Impacts (DRI). It builds on and modifies the widely applied Drivers, Pressures, States, Impacts and Responses (DPSIR) model. It suggests, firstly and most importantly, that the various temporal and spatial scales at which Drivers, Responses and Impacts operate should be included in the DRI conceptual framework. Secondly, the framework focuses on Drivers, Impacts and Responses in order to provide a parsimonious account of a drought system that can be informed by a range of social science, humanities and science data. ‘Pressures’ are therefore considered as a sub-category of ‘Drivers’. ‘States’ are a sub-category of ‘Impacts’. Thirdly, and most fundamentally in order to facilitate cross-disciplinary research of droughts, the DRI framework defines each of its elements, ‘Drivers’, ‘Pressures’, ‘States’, ‘Impacts’ and ‘Responses’ as capable of being shaped by both linked natural and social factors. This is different from existing DPSIR models which often see ‘Responses’ and ‘Impacts’ as located mainly in the social world, while ‘States’ are considered to be states within the natural environment only. The article illustrates this argument through an application of the DRI framework to the 1976 and 2003–6 droughts. The article also starts to address how - in cross-disciplinary research that encompasses physical and social sciences – claims about relationships between Drivers as well as Impacts of and Responses to drought over time can be methodologically justified. While the DRI framework has been inductively developed out of research on droughts we argue that it can be applied to a range of environmental governance challenges.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationLange B, Holman I, Bloomfield JP. A framework for a joint hydro-meteorological-social analysis of drought. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 578, 1 February 2017, Pages 297–306en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0048-9697
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.145
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11257
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectDrought and water scarcityen_UK
dc.subjectDriversen_UK
dc.subjectResponsesen_UK
dc.subjectImpactsen_UK
dc.subjectCross-disciplinary researchen_UK
dc.subjectHistorical analysisen_UK
dc.titleA framework for a joint hydro-meteorological-social analysis of droughten_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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