Droughts in the Anthropocene

Authors Hanna Lønning Gjerdi, GRID-Arendal, Norway Tobias Gunn, GRID-Arendal, Norway Anil Mishra, UNESCO, France Roger S. Pulwarty, NOAA, USA Justin Sheffield, University of Southampton, UK Content contributors and reviewers Wyatt Arnold, California Department of Water Resources, USA Steve Darby, University of Southampton, UK Guy Debonnet, UNESCO WHC, France Harry Dixon, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK Miguel Doria, UNESCO, Uruguay David Farrell, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Barbados Renée Gift, UNESCO, France Verónica González, UNESCO LINKS, France Jamie Hannaford, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK Charlotte Hipkiss, University of Southampton, UK Adelaide Hitchings, University of Southampton, UK Craig Hutton, University of Southampton, UK Lisa Hymas, GRID-Arendal, Norway Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, AFPAT, Chad Feng Jing, UNESCO WHC, France Kasper Johansen, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Akmal Karimov, TIIAME, Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Karimov, TIIAME, Uzbekistan Waldo Lavado, Peruvian National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology, Peru Jessica Lawson, USA Roland Lin, UNESCO WHC, France William S. Logan, ICIWaRM, US Army Corps of Engineers, USA Romani Maendly, California Department of Water Resources, USA Gabriel Mancilla, CAZALAC, Chile Matt McCabe, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Mizuki Murai, IUCN World Heritage Programme, UK Akane Nakamura, UNESCO WHC, France Siri Olsson, GRID-Arendal, Norway Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema, University of

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Witwatersrand, South Africa Jayakumar Ramasamy, UNESCO, Kenya

Steven Robins, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Abdulkhakim Salokhiddinov, TIIAME, Uzbekistan David Sear, University of Southampton, UK Vadim Sokolov, IFAS, Uzbekistan Astrid Vannoppen, Belgium Koen Verbist, UNESCO, Zimbabwe Omogbemi Omoloju Yaya, RC-IRBM, National Water Resources Institute, Nigeria Other contributions Mariela Antonakopoulou, UNESCO, France Maud Berthelot, UNESCO, France Patrycja Breskvar, UNESCO, France Runa Lindebjerg, GRID-Arendal, Norway Barbara Kavuma Lwanga, UNESCO, France Alexander Otte, UNESCO, France Tina Schoolmeester, GRID-Arendal, Norway Marco Vinaccia, GRID-Arendal, Norway Claire Marine Hugon, France Hong Huynh, UNESCO, France

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Recommended citation: Gjerdi, H. L., Gunn,T., Mishra, A., Pulwarty, R.S. andSheffield, J. 2019. Droughts in the Anthropocene/Les sécheresses dans l’Anthropocène . UNESCO and GRID-Arendal.

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