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Sectoral Vulnerability to Drought: Exploring the Role of Blue and Green Water Dependency in Mid and High-Latitudes
Abstract. The European continent has experienced several large-scale drought events in recent years, and climate projections suggest an increasing drought risk in many parts of the world. As droughts can have large impacts on socio-hydrological systems, analyzing drought risk is an important part for proactive drought risk management and disaster risk reduction. Drought risk can be expressed as a product of hazard, exposure and vulnerability, where vulnerability is highly contextual and complex. As droughts can affect all parts of the hydrological system, from precipitation and soil moisture to groundwater and surface water reservoirs, drought vulnerability differs depending on what part of the system is studied. Building on previous results from a survey analyzing drought vulnerability across seven water-dependent sectors, this paper explores how vulnerability factors vary based on sectors’ dependency on blue water (surface and subsurface freshwater) or green water (soil moisture) in mid and high latitude regions. The findings reveal that drought vulnerability differs based on water type dependency, especially concerning water supply and species characteristics. Perceptions of vulnerability factors vary in number, category, and overall ranking, highlighting the importance of considering water dependency when choosing vulnerability factors for drought risk assessments and to clearly define the drought hazard types involved.
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RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-2726', Mirela-Adriana Anghelache, 28 Nov 2024
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This is an exhaustive research work about the vulnerability to draught of forested cold climate regions from Europe. The most respondent are from southern Sweden (84%) and the others are detalied in supplementary materials. From a risk analysis, there are assesed the vulnerability factors and the final assessment underline the factors that seem to be generally impactful for all consumer groups of: blue water, green water and univesal water, respectively.
To be published with some minor revisions:
Row 102 : pls. explain Cfb
Fig. 4, to be zoomed in, there are many details, hard to follow
Fig. 6, axis to be explained, impact score vs?
Table 2 to be centered
Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2726-RC1
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