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| Title | Diagnosing drought for dealing with drought |
| Group | Water Resources Management group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Pieter van Oel |
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| Contact info | pieter.vanoel@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2020/01/01 |
| End date | 2022/01/31 |
| Description | Country: Brazil
Host institute: FUNCEME (http://www.funceme.br) Period: open Diagnosing drought for dealing with drought in 3D: Toolbox for increasing drought preparedness of actors in water and climate governance, starting from north eastern Brazil This project is a joint effort of Brazilian and Dutch organizations. To manage drought better, human influences on drought must be better understood. This project combines insights from socio hydrology and water management to produce an entirely new approach, incorporating the study of water related human dimensions (D1), socio hydrological dynamics (D2), and the structuring of dialogues (D3) among actors. The project will develop and test the integrated, participatory 3D Drought Diagnosis (3DDD) toolbox. Test case is the drought affected Northeast of Brazil. We will demonstrate how proposed drought management solutions perform with regard to cross scale synergies and trade offs in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2, 6, 10, and 13. The project involves three PhD projects, each focussing on one of the three D’s: water related human dimensions (D1), socio hydrological dynamics (D¬2), and dialogues among actors (D3). As a MSc student you can contribute to the project by conducting thesis research that supports the PhD projects. Research could include quantitative data analysis (e.g. using GIS or Remote sensing), socio hydrological modelling or policy analysis using participatory methods. |
| Used skills | statistics , hydrological modelling , remote sensing |
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