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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AUDIO ANECDOTES<br />
What is it like to listen for a living?<br />
Rebecca Pearce<br />
Postdoctoral Research Fellow<br />
University of Exeter<br />
Between October 2014 and October 2017, Dr Rebecca Pearce travelled<br />
across Britain, tracing the impacts of historic droughts as they were<br />
recalled by people living in a diverse range of communities.<br />
Attendees of the <strong>About</strong> <strong>Drought</strong> conference in March 2019 and the<br />
<strong>About</strong> <strong>Drought</strong> Download in November 2019 have been able to join<br />
Rebecca in that experience through her special conference sound<br />
installation of audio anecdotes.<br />
By listening to a selection of extended interview highlights from the<br />
Historic <strong>Drought</strong>s project’s oral history collection, attendees were<br />
able to immerse themselves in the conversations, from horticulture<br />
to heatwaves and hydrology to heath fires. Listerners are able to learn<br />
about the power of memory work, narratives and storytelling, through<br />
the three unique pieces.<br />
You can listen to the <strong>About</strong> <strong>Drought</strong> Podcasts on SoundCloud at<br />
soundcloud.com/user-505147606<br />
“THE [FIREFIGHTER] LEGGINGS THAT WE USED<br />
TO WEAR BACK IN THE 70S WERE MADE OF<br />
PLASTIC AND THE HELMETS, BELIEVE IT OR<br />
NOT, WERE MADE OUT OF HARDBOARD … YOU<br />
WOULDN’T BELIEVE THAT THEY WOULD MAKE<br />
LEGGINGS OUT OF PLASTIC BUT THEY WERE<br />
YELLOW PLASTIC AND THEY USED TO MELT VERY<br />
EASILY.”<br />
40<br />
Daily Mail • 20th August 1976
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