Quantifying and mapping resilience and social vulnerability is a widely used technique to
support risk management, with recent years seeing a proliferation of applications across the …

Climate change impacts global weather patterns, leading to more frequent and intense
extreme weather events. Floods and droughts are the primary hazards caused by climate …

The use of documentary evidence to investigate past climatic trends and events has become
a recognised approach in recent decades. This contribution presents the state of the art in its …

Multi-hazard events can be associated with larger socio-economic impacts than single-
hazard events. Understanding the spatio-temporal interactions that characterize the former …

In a changing climate and in social context, tools and databases with high spatiotemporal
resolution are needed for increasing the knowledge on the relationship between …

For the development of sustainable, efficient risk management strategies for the hydrological
extremes of droughts and floods, it is essential to understand the temporal changes of …

Drought risk quantifies the likelihood of environmental and socio-economic systems to suffer
negative consequences due to drought. The analysis of drought risk is understood as the …

Evidence contained within historical documents and inscriptions provides an important
record of climate variability for periods prior to the onset of systematic meteorological data …

Long-lasting drought can have a serious impact on human society and even lead to regime
change and the demise of civilizations. Case studies will help to understand the evolution …

Drought directly and indirectly affects the entire socio-economic and environmental sectors
in southwestern Germany. Such impacts are a result of the drought hazard and an …