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The role of drought preparedness in building and mobilizing adaptive capacity in states and their community water systems

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The likely intensification of extreme droughts from climate change in many regions across the United States has increased interest amongst researchers and water managers to understand not only the magnitude of drought impacts and their consequences on water resources, but also what they can do to prevent, respond to, and adapt to these impacts. Building and mobilizing ‘adaptive capacity’ can help in this pursuit. Researchers anticipate that drought preparedness measures will increase adaptive capacity, but there has been minimal testing of this and other assumptions about the governance and institutional determinants of adaptive capacity. This paper draws from recent extreme droughts in Arizona and Georgia to empirically assess adaptive capacity across spatial and temporal scales. It combines quantitative and qualitative methodologies to identify a handful of heuristics for increasing adaptive capacity of water management to extreme droughts and climate change, and also highlights potential tradeoffs in building and mobilizing adaptive capacity across space and time. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

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  • Nathan Engle, 2013. "The role of drought preparedness in building and mobilizing adaptive capacity in states and their community water systems," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 118(2), pages 291-306, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:climat:v:118:y:2013:i:2:p:291-306
    DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0657-4
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