About Drought Handbook: Outputs & Impacts
As the UK’s £12m Drought and Water Scarcity (DWS) research programme reaches its conclusion with a final event at The Royal Society in London, this handbook draws together the key outputs and outcomes. The book also features a series of interviews with our leading stakeholders, which highlight how successfully we have met our objectives to produce cutting-edge science that has made a demonstrable impact on how decision-makers manage water scarcity in the UK.
As the UK’s £12m Drought and Water Scarcity (DWS) research programme reaches its conclusion with a final event at The Royal Society in London, this handbook draws together the key outputs and outcomes. The book also features a series of interviews with our leading stakeholders, which highlight how successfully we have met our objectives to produce cutting-edge science that has made a demonstrable impact on how decision-makers manage water scarcity in the UK.
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ENDOWS<br />
Bringing it all together<br />
ENgaging diverse stakeholders and publics with outputs from the UK<br />
DrOught and Water Scarcity programme - ENDOWS, brings together<br />
the successful stakeholder engagement elements of the four <strong>Drought</strong><br />
and Water Scarcity (DWS) projects to further develop and promote<br />
understanding of the key messages from the programme. Building<br />
on the activities of DRY, IMPETUS, MaRIUS and Historic <strong>Drought</strong>s,<br />
ENDOWS was funded by the Research Councils to inform adaptation<br />
and management decisions before, during, and after drought events, using<br />
the new data and findings from the DWS programme.<br />
ENDOWS has brought these activities together under the banner ‘<strong>About</strong><br />
<strong>Drought</strong>’, an accessible programme of informed engagement with regulators,<br />
industry, business, policy-makers, communities and sector organisations.<br />
Knowledge Exchange was a key function of <strong>About</strong> <strong>Drought</strong>, facilitating<br />
effective networking between the research and stakeholder communities;<br />
encouraging the building of reliable contacts and stimulating new working<br />
relationships, and accelerating the speed at which the outputs of the DWS<br />
programme are being implemented to support evidence-based decisions in<br />
drought planning and management.<br />
Thus far, the project has enabled interaction on and transfer of scientific<br />
knowledge and outputs in the form of resources, information, and/or<br />
tools to water companies, the environmental regulators, allotment groups,<br />
farmers associations, and so on, as outlined throughout this book.<br />
The <strong>About</strong> <strong>Drought</strong> website was developed as an authoritative source of<br />
expertise, and as a publicly available platform for informed comment and<br />
opinion. The <strong>About</strong> <strong>Drought</strong> Twitter account @<strong>About</strong><strong>Drought</strong> highlights<br />
drought-related news and opinions from the UK and around the world.<br />
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