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FRIEND-Water project groups will have a meeting (FRIEND-Water: SPM1.5) at EGU, Viena (Austria), 25 April, 17:30 – 20:00 hr, Room SM1 (Blue Level, basement). The meeting has a scientific nature. Everybody is welcome (public meeting). It is a good opportunity to learn more about the UNESCO-FRIEND programme and to meet FRIEND members.

"Drought response capacity and prevention to reduce future Europe's water balance vulnerability": Henny van Lanen (coordinator EDC) has been interviewed by Elena Ledda (European Research Media Centre).

European Geosciences Union, General Assembly, Vienna, 22–27 April 2012,
Session HS2.6 Hydrological extremes: from droughts to floods
Session HS4.4 Drought and water scarcity: hydrological monitoring, modeling and forecasting
Session HS5.4 Drought, Water Scarcity and Food Security: Monitoring, mitigation & adaptation

News from LLoyd's: The science of drought (1 June 2011) and Drought alert as Europe dries up (27 May 2011)

The EU-FP7 project XEROCHORE has recently been terminated. A concluding presentation (pdf) was given at the EC-UN ISDR International Workshop Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Reducing Water-related Risks in Europe, Brussels, 6-7 July 2010. Extended abstract (pdf).

The EU-FP7 project XEROCHORE has led to a substantial extension of the EDC network of drought experts.
→ For more information, see report (pdf)

Drought Management Centre for Southeastern Europe (DMCSEE)

Conclusions and Recommendations (pdf): UNESCO EURO-FRIEND International Workshop on Low Flow and Drought, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 10-12 November 2008

Policy document: Drought and Climate Change. Annex to: Commission Staff Working Document Impact Assessment (SEC(2007) 993) Belgium 2007
→ Water policy in the European Union: Water Scarcity & Droughts in the European Union

The discussion document 'Towards a European Drought Policy' was published in November 2004 by the EurAqua network of Europe's leading freshwater research organizations.

The textbook on hydrological drought was published in late 2004: Tallaksen, L.M. & van Lanen, H.A.J. (Eds.) (2004) Hydrological Drought. Processes and Estimation Methods for Streamflow and Groundwater. Developments in Water Science, 48, Elsevier Science B.V., 579 pg.
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