Joseph Alcamo Center for Environmental Systems Research, Kassel Slide 1 Security Diagrams Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel Joseph Alcamo (Project leader) Dörthe Krömker Frank Eierdanz (Project manager) Adelphi Research, Berlin Alexander Carius Dennis Tänzler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Richard Klein Lilibeth Acosta-Michlik A New Approach to Assessing Vulnerability to Drought: Results from the Security Diagrams Project Funded by German Research Ministry Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Research Community Montreal, Canada 16-18 October, 2003
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Joseph Alcamo Center for Environmental Systems Research, KasselSlide 1
Security Diagrams
Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel Joseph Alcamo (Project leader)Dörthe Krömker Frank Eierdanz (Project manager)
Adelphi Research, BerlinAlexander Carius Dennis Tänzler
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ResearchRichard KleinLilibeth Acosta-Michlik
A New Approach to Assessing Vulnerability to Drought:
Results from the Security Diagrams ProjectFunded by German Research Ministry
Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Research Community Montreal, Canada 16-18 October, 2003
Joseph Alcamo Center for Environmental Systems Research, KasselSlide 2
Security DiagramsA New Approach to Assessing
Vulnerability to Drought: Results from the Security Diagrams Project
Introduction & first results Joseph Alcamo
Using fuzzy set theory to address the
uncertainty of susceptibility to
drought
Frank Eierdanz
The socio-economic dimension of
assessing vulnerability to extreme
climate events
Lilibeth Acosta-Michlik
Assessing susceptibility of society:
1. An environmental psychology
perspective
2. A political science perspective
Doerthe Kroemker
Doerthe Kroemker (for Dennis
Tanzler & Alex Carius)
Summing Up Joseph Alcamo
Joseph Alcamo Center for Environmental Systems Research, KasselSlide 3
Security DiagramsIntroduction to the Security Diagrams
Project
Overriding research question:
How can vulnerability of society to global change be quantified?
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Why quantify vulnerability?
To provide framework for comparing and integrating different disciplinary perspectives.
To include vulnerability in climate impact models, in integrated models, and other models.
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Susceptibility
En
vir
on
men
tal S
tress
Not a crisis
Crises event
High probabilityof crisesLow probability of crises
Framework for Quantifying Vulnerability:Security Diagram
Security diagrams deconstruct vulnerability into stress, susceptibility and crisis
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Conceptual Overview
EnvironmentalStress
Susceptibility Likelihood of Crisis
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Security Diagrams
1. Crisis – How can crisis events be identified?
2. Environmental Stress – What measures of environmental stress best reflect society’s vulnerability to drought?
3. Susceptibility – How can susceptibility of society to drought be quantified, and how similar/different are different disciplinary perspectives?
Specific Research Questions
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Approach of Project
Focus: Vulnerability of population to drought
Analysis
1. Estimate crisis events – Media analysis
2. Compute water stress – Use WaterGAP model and test indicators against crisis events
3. Compute susceptibility – Develop inference models from three disciplinary perspectives
Data collection
• Top down (statistical data, 1980 – 2000)
• Bottom up (limited surveys, late 1990s)
Three case study regions ...
Joseph Alcamo Center for Environmental Systems Research, KasselSlide 9
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Case Study Regions
Southern Portugal
Volga region
Andhra Pradesh
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Security Diagrams
1. Crisis – How can crisis events be identified?
2. Environmental Stress – What measures of environmental stress best reflect society’s vulnerability to drought?
3. Susceptibility – How can susceptibility of society to drought be quantified, and how similar/different are different disciplinary perspectives?
Specific Research Questions
Joseph Alcamo Center for Environmental Systems Research, KasselSlide 11
Security Diagrams
1. Crisis – How can crisis events be identified?
2. Environmental Stress – What measures of environmental stress best reflect society’s vulnerability to drought?
3. Susceptibility – How can susceptibility of society to drought be quantified, and how similar/different are different disciplinary perspectives?
Specific Research Questions
Crisis: unstable or crucial time or state of affairs brought about by environmental stress; decisive undesirable change is impending/occurring, requires emergency measures.
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Identifying Drought Crisis Events
Media analysis -- “Factiva” media data base
(8000 media sources, local/regional/national)
1. Establish classes of “attributes” of crisis
2. Identify reliable local media
3. Tabulate recurrent (> 2 per month) reports of attributes
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Results of Media AnalysisExample – Southern Portugal, 1983
Attributes of crisis
Agriculture
(0.25)
Energy & Industry
(0.25)
Political
(0.25)
Social
(0.25)
Sum
1.0
Irrigation strongly reduced
Reservoirs empty towards end of year
Hydroelectric production severely curtailed.
Announce-ment of „emergency‘“ for Alentejo
Mandatory electricity- saving measures
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Based on the best global data sets currently available
Uses “local” climate and socio-economic data to compute
water availability and use in case study regions
Computing water stress – the WaterGAP model
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Testing the WaterGAP Model
River Discharge of Volga at Volgograd (km3/a)
Computed
Observed
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Security DiagramsWater Stress Indicators
-- Test against occurrence of crisis events -- Statistical significance, t test (0.05)
Water withdrawal to availability ratio Deviation of groundwater recharge from long time average Deviation of water availability from long time average Runoff deficit index Deviation of evapotranspiration from long time average MaxIndex Maximum function [withdrawal to availability ratio, deviation of water availability from long term average, and percentage of area with high water stress]
Water withdrawal to internal availability ratio Annual groundwater recharge in mm
Groundwater discharge per capita Water availability per capita Internal renewable water availability per capita Percentage of area under stress (defined as withdrawal to availability ratio of 0.4 or more) Percentage of population under stress Deviation of precipitation from long time average
Statistically significant indicators Not statistically significant indicators
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