Journal of Geography  & Natural Disasters
Open Access

Christina Corbane, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Publications

• Research Article   
  Trends in Some Long-term Drought Drivers
  Author(s): Alfred de Jager*
  
  The droughts that hit North and North Western Europe in 2018 and 2019 served as a wake-up call that also temperate regions are affected by this kind of slow progressing or creeping disasters. The impacts of these meteorological droughts may have been exacerbated by long-term drivers, such as land-use changes, changes that are spread over a long time span, even difficult visible for an individual, but make a big difference in how the rare weather event impacts a region. In this paper we introduce three long-term drivers, forest fires in Europe, urbanization, and deforestation... View More»
  

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