2nd international drought symposium
UNESCO Paris, France - Jun 10, 2025
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2Nd international drought symposium |
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9:00 |
Welcoming - Overview of outputs of OEWG1 (Koen
Verbist) |
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9:30 |
Presentation of IAHS HELPING “ Water solutions in the Anthropocene:
IAHS’s third scientific decade” (prof Thom Bogaard)
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10:00 |
“The Drought Atlas”
(Tessa Maurer) |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:30 |
-Session I drought assessment: 8 presentations |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00-15:30 |
Session II
drought assessment: 8 presentations |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00-17:30 |
Session III
drought mitigation: 8 presentations |
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18:00 |
Reception |
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End of Day |
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Name |
Affiliation |
Title |
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SESSION 1 |
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Stephan Dietrich |
International Centre for Water
Resources and Global Change (UNESCO), Germany |
OUTLAST -
A global multi-sectoral drought hazard monitoring and forecasting system. |
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Aamir Imran |
University of Twente, Netherlands |
The Flip Side of Extremes: Investigating dry and
wet sequences in Pakistan using Koppen-Geiger Climate System |
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Melkamu Meseret Alemu |
Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia |
Spatiotemporal analysis of
drought characteristics across multiple timescales in the Upper Blue Nile
basin, Ethiopia |
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Erasto Benedict Mukama |
Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania |
Evaluating the standardized and threshold based
drought indices for historical drought detection in the Great Ruaha River
Basin, Tanzania |
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María José Merizalde |
Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador |
Analyzing the influence of
spatial rainfall variability on drought-impacted reservoir outflow: A
data-driven modelling approach in a tropical mountain environment. |
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Abedulla Elsaidy |
Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine |
Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Groundwater
Drought in the Bruna River Catchment, Italy |
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Ashenafi Tadesse Marye |
University of Tuscia and
University of Gondar, Ethiopia |
The drought paradox in the
Mediterranean forests of Central Italy |
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SESSION II |
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Steve Turner |
CEH, UK |
Climate-driven drought
and low flow trends revealed through a global network of near-natural
catchments
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Michel Craninx |
VITO, Belgium |
Assessing Runoff Reduction in
Agricultural Fields Using a Simplified Spatial Water Balance Model: A Case
Study in Belgium |
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Laura Suarez Gutierrez |
LSCE-IPSL, France |
Worst-Case European Heat and Drought Storylines
generated using Ensemble Boosting |
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Cristina Dedda |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Belgium |
Compound extreme event
attribution: hot and dry events in Belgium |
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Estifanos Addisu Yimer |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
Attributing climate change impact on streamflow
and groundwater volume decrease at regional scale using coupled surface –
groundwater model |
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Maral Habibi |
Department of Geography and Regional
Sciences, , Austria |
Hydroclimatic Shifts and
Environmental Challenges in the Urmia Lake Basin: An Integrated Assessment |
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Rodolfo Nobrega |
University of Bristol, UK |
The semi-arid Brazilian Caatinga as a Natural
Laboratory for Socio-ecohydrological Research on Droughts |
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John Okedi |
South Africa |
Developing a Low-Cost
IoT-Based Hydrological Monitoring Network for Urban Stormwater Management and
Managed Aquifer Recharge |
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SESSION III |
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Mario Mendiondo |
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
South American Ancestral Knowledge Helping to
Cope With Unprecedented Floods and Droughts Under Change |
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Carlos Eduardo Quezada
Lambertin |
Universidad Católica
Boliviana, Bolivia |
Mapping resilience in High
Andean wetlands: Integrating geospatial and community-based approaches in
complex Social-Ecological Systems |
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Sam Vermeulen |
University of Antwerp, Belgium |
Adapt or Dry: Valuation of Climate Adaptation
Measures for Drought Risk-Reduction |
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Giriraj Amarnath |
International Water Management
Institute, Sri Lanka |
Drought Action Catalyst:
Advancing Integrated Drought Management for Resilient Futures |
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Carmen Elena López |
HAEDES, Belgium |
Digital twinning as support decision-making
system for sustainable drought management |
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Miguel Moreno |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Belgium |
Groundwater-based solutions to
mitigate drought impacts: Assessing Aquifer Storage and Recovery in the
Cretaceous Aquifer in Flanders, Belgium |
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Lien De Trift |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
Framework for mapping large-scale Nature-Based
Solutions for drought mitigation: regional application in Flanders, Belgium |
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Douglas Nyolei |
Nature Conservancy, Kenya |
The effectiveness of NbS
interventions in mitigating drought risks within the Lower Kafue Catchment of
Zambia using the SWAT+ |