Repository of Drought Event Impacts Across the Danube Catchment Countries Between 1981 and 2016 Using Publicly Available Sources
2019
Jiří Jakubínský | Monika Bláhová | Lenka Bartošová | Klára Steinerová | Jan Balek | Petra Dížková | Daniela Semerádová | Daniel Alexandru | Galia Bardarska | Sabina Bokal | Goran Borojević | Andreea Bucur | Ksenija Cindrić Kalin | Anda Claudia Barbu | Barbara Debre | Milica Đorđević | Ines Đurić | Bianca Florina Mircea | Sandra Gatarić | Gregor Gregorič | Stefan Hasenauer | Mirjana Ivanov | Andrea Kircsi | Lívia Labudová | Maroš Turňa | Ivana Marinović | Mihajlo Marković | Elena Mateescu | Gal Oblišar | Andreea Popescu | Zorica Srđević | Tatjana Savić‑Šljivić | Dejan Supić | Andreja Sušnik | Natasa Pazin | Miras Drljevic | Tonka Kuc | Luka Mitrovic | Slavica Micev | Wolfgang Wagner | Josef Eitzinger | Vojko Daneu | Veit Blauhut | Kerstin Stahl | Miroslav Trnka
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.
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