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Research article
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12 Nov 2025
Research article |
| 12 Nov 2025
| 12 Nov 2025
The 2022 drought needs to be a turning point for European drought risk management
Riccardo Biella
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, Uppsala, Sweden
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Anastasiya Shyrokaya
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, Uppsala, Sweden
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Monica Ionita
Paleoclimate Dynamics Group, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Forest Biometrics Laboratory – Faculty of Forestry, “Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Universităţii street, no. 13, 720229, Suceava, Romania
Raffaele Vignola
Earth Systems and Global Change, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Samuel J. Sutanto
Earth Systems and Global Change, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Andrijana Todorovic
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia
Claudia Teutschbein
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, Uppsala, Sweden
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Daniela Cid
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Hydrogeology Group (UPC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Maria Carmen Llasat
Department of Applied Physics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
IdRA, Water Research Institut, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Pedro Alencar
Chair of Ecohydrology, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Alessia Matanó
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Elena Ridolfi
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, 00184 Roma, Italy
Benedetta Moccia
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, 00184 Roma, Italy
Ilias Pechlivanidis
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
Anne van Loon
Chair of Ecohydrology, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Doris E. Wendt
University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Elin Stenfors
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, Uppsala, Sweden
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Fabio Russo
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, 00184 Roma, Italy
Jean-Philippe Vidal
INRAE, RiverLy, Villeurbanne, France
Lucy Barker
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Mariana Madruga de Brito
Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
Marleen Lam
Water Resources Management (WRM), Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Wageningen, the Netherlands
Monika Bláhová
Global Change Research Institute CAS, Brno, Czech Republic
Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
Patricia Trambauer
Deltares, Delft, the Netherlands
Raed Hamed
Chair of Ecohydrology, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Scott J. McGrane
Department of Economics, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Applied Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California, CA, USA
Serena Ceola
Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Sigrid J. Bakke
Norwegian water and energy directorate, Oslo, Norway
Svitlana Krakovska
Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
National Antarctic Scientific Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
Viorica Nagavciuc
Paleoclimate Dynamics Group, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Forest Biometrics Laboratory – Faculty of Forestry, “Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Universităţii street, no. 13, 720229, Suceava, Romania
Faranak Tootoonchi
Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, Uppsala, Sweden
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Sandra Hauswirth
Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Shreedhar Maskey
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands
Svitlana Zubkovych
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Marthe Wens
Chair of Ecohydrology, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Lena M. Tallaksen
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Short summary
The DitA (Drought in the Anthropocene) network's study on the 2022 European drought reveals growing risks, varied impacts, and fragmented, short-term management. Based on a survey of water managers, it explores risk, impacts, strategies, and their evolution. While challenges persist, signs of improvement show readiness for change. The authors call for a European Drought Directive to unify and guide future drought risk management.
The DitA (Drought in the Anthropocene) network's study on the 2022 European drought reveals...
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