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Does preparing for drought help when it comes?

Paper: Lessons learned in institutional preparedness and response during the 2022 European drought
Biella et al. · Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 2026 · doi.org/10.5194/nhess-26-955-2026

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Does preparing for drought help when it comes? After Europe's record drought of 2022, researchers gathered 481 survey responses from 30 countries. Organisations with forecasting systems acted, on average, 2 months earlier.

AI-assisted summary with an AI voice, not reviewed by the authors. Made from the paper under its CC BY licence. Read the paper before relying on a finding. Keywords: drought risk management, institutional readiness, water managers, Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index, European drought, drought policy.