RT Journal Article
T1 Challenges for the Integration of Water Resource and Drought-Risk Management in Spain
A1 Vargas Molina, Jesús
A1 Paneque Salgado, Pilar
K1 Sequía - Previsión
AB Droughts are risks characterized by their complexity, uncertainty, and a series of other features, which differentiate them from other natural disasters and affect the strategies designed to manage them. These characteristics highlight the close relationship between drought management and water resources management. The following hypothesis is raised in this study—unsatisfactory integration of a drought-risk and water resources management strategies, increases the vulnerability to drought. To corroborate this hypothesis, the Spanish case was analyzed, where droughts are a recurrent phenomenon, due to the Mediterranean climate. Starting from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) framework, which has been proposed to characterize vulnerability as a function of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity, this study analyzed the vulnerability in the Spanish River Basin Districts, through—(i) the integration of the predictable effects of climate change and the increased risk of exposure in hydrologic planning; (ii) the pressure on water resources that determines the sensitivity of the systems; and (iii) the development and implementation of drought management plans as a fundamental tool, in order to adapt before these events occur. The results showed that despite important advances in the process of conceiving and managing droughts, in Spain, there are still important gaps for an adequate integration of droughts risk into the water resource strategies. Therefore, despite the improvements, drought-risk vulnerability of the systems remained high.
PB MDPI
YR 2019
FD 2019-01-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30206
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30206
LA eng
NO Vargas, J. & Paneque, P. (2019).Challenges for the Integration of Water Resource and Drought-Risk Management in Spain. Sustainability 2019, 11(2), 308. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020308
NO Plan Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad—FEDER. Convocatoria 2015, grant number CSO2015-64026-P “Evaluación de la vulnerabilidad socio-institucional a las sequías: propuesta metodológica, estudio de caso y elaboración de una Guía (EVALSOC)”.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 27 feb 2026