November 2020
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Ward et al. (2020) The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies
This paper synthesizes existing literature to demonstrate how disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures for floods or droughts can have unintended positive or negative impacts on the risk of the opposite hazard, and how these measures can be negatively impacted by the opposite hazard. It highlights the critical need for a more holistic, integrated approach to flood and drought risk management.