Drought Vulnerability Assessments Included in the Review

1. Drought vulnerability studies identified through the search protocol

Drought vulnerability assessments Included in the review

1. Adepetu, A,A and Berthe, A. (2007) Vulnerability of rural Sahelian Households to Drought: options for adaptation A Final Report Submitted to Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC), Project No. AF 9, The International START Secretariat Washington, USA 2. Aggett, Graeme. (2013) A Multi-sector Drought Vulnerability Assessment for the State of Colorado. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. Vol. Colorado Water Conservation Board CWCB (2010). Drought Vulnerability Assessment Technical Information. Annex B to The Colorado Drought Mitigation and Response Plan. Department of Natural Resources 3. Alcamo, Joseph, Lilibeth Acosta-Michlik, Alexander Carius, Frank Eierdanz, Richard Klein, Dörthe Krömker, and Dennis Tänzler. (2008). ‘A New Approach to Quantifying and Comparing Vulnerability to Drought’. Regional Environmental Change 8, no. 4: 137–49. doi:10.1007/s10113-008-0065-5. Eierdanz, Frank, Joseph Alcamo, Lilibeth Acosta-Michlik, Dörthe Krömker, and Dennis Tänzler (2008). ‘Using Fuzzy Set Theory to Address the Uncertainty of Susceptibility to Drought’. Regional Environmental Change 8, no. 4: 197–205. doi:10.1007/s10113-008-0069-1. Acosta-Michlik, Lilibeth A., K. S. Kavi Kumar, Richard J. T. Klein, and Sabine Campe (2008). ‘Application of Fuzzy Models to Assess Susceptibility to Droughts from a Socio-Economic Perspective’. Regional Environmental Change 8, no. 4: 151–60. doi:10.1007/s10113-008-0058-4. Krömker, Dörthe, Frank Eierdanz, and Andreas Stolberg (2008). ‘Who Is Susceptible and Why? An Agent-Based Approach to Assessing Vulnerability to Drought’. Regional Environmental Change 8, no. 4: 173–85. doi:10.1007/s10113-008-0049-5. Taenzler, Dennis, Alexander Carius, and Achim Maas (2008). ‘Assessing the Susceptibility of Societies to Droughts: A Political Science Perspective’. Regional Environmental Change 8, no. 4: 161–72. doi:10.1007/s10113-008-0067-3. Tänzler, D., Feil, M., Krömker, D., & Eierdanz, F. (2008). The challenge of validating vulnerability estimates: the option of media content analysis for identifying drought-related crises. Regional Environmental Change, 8(4), 187-195. 4. Antwi-Agyei, Philip, Evan D.G. Fraser, Andrew J. Dougill, Lindsay C. Stringer, and Elisabeth Simelton. ‘Mapping the Vulnerability of Crop Production to Drought in Ghana Using Rainfall, Yield and Socioeconomic Data’. Applied Geography 32, no. 2 (March 2012): 324–34. doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.06.010. Antwi-Agyei, P. (2012). Vulnerability and adaptation of Ghana’s food production systems and rural livelihoods to climate variability. University of Leeds. PHD thesis 5. Assimacopoulos, D, Kampragkou, E., Andreu, J., Bifulco, C., De Carli, A., De Stefano,L., Dias, S., Gudmundsson L., Haro-Monteagudo, D., Musolino D, Paredes-Arquiola J., Rego F., Seidl I., Solera A., Urquijo, J., van Lanen, H., Wolters, W. (2014) Future drought impact and vulnerability - case study scale. DROUGHT-R&SPI Technical Report No 20. 6. Bhattacharya, S., & Das, A. (2007). Vulnerability to Drought, Cyclones and Floods in India. European Commission BASIC Project, BASIC Project Paper, 9. 7. Chandrasekar, K; V R Sesha Sai, M; Roy, P S; Jayaraman (2009) Identification of Agricultural Drought Vulnerable Areas of Tamil Nadu, India -- Using GIS Based Multi Criteria Analysis, V. Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management1.1: n/a.

8. Cheng, Jing, and Jian-Ping Tao. Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation of Drought Vulnerability Based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process:—An Empirical Study from Xiaogan City in Hubei Province. Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia 1 (2010): 126-135..

9. De Stefano L, González Tánago I, Ballesteros M, Urquijo J et al (2015) Methodological approach considering different factors influencing vulnerability - pan-European scale. DROUGHT-R&SPI Technical Rep. No 26.

10. Deems H & Adriana Bruggeman, (210) Vulnerability Index, Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute (handout)

Deems, H. J. (2010). Vulnerability of rural communities in the Mediterranean region to climate change and water scarcity: The case of Cyprus. (Master thesis) 11. Eriyagama N., V. Smakhtin, et al. (2010). Global Drought Characteristics, Patterns, Vulnerabilities And Impacts, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka, XEROCHORE Conference on Drought Science and Policy, Brussels, Belgium, February, 2010 (PPT)

Eriyagama, N., V. Smakhtin, et al. (2009). Mapping Drought Patterns and Impacts: A Global Perspective, IWMI Research Reports 133. Colombo.

12. Flörke, M., Wimmer, F., Laaser, C., Rodrigo Vidaurre, R., Tröltzsch, J., Dworak, T., Stein, U., Marinova, N., Jaspers, F., Swart, R., Giupponi, C., Bosello, F., Mysiak, J. 2011. Final Report for the project Climate Adaptation – modelling water scenarios and sectoral impacts. Contract N° DG ENV.D.2/SER/2009/0034 13. Fontaine, Matthew M., and Anne C. Steinemann. Assessing vulnerability to natural hazards: Impact-based method and application to drought in Washington State. Natural Hazards Review 10.1 (2009): 11-18. 14. Fraser, Evan DG, et al. Vulnerability hotspots: Integrating socio-economic and hydrological models to identify where cereal production may decline in the future due to climate change induced drought. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 170 (2013): 195-205. 15. Ganapuram, S., Nagarajan, N., & Balaji, V. (2013). Village-level Drought Vulnerability Assessment Using Geographic Information System (GIS). International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering, 3(3), 1-10. 16. Huang, Lingmiao, Peiling Yang, and Shumei Ren. (2014): The Vulnerability Assessment Method for Beijing Agricultural Drought. Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture VII 269-280

Huang, Lingmiao, Peiling Yang, and Shumei Ren. Brief Probe into the Key Factors that Influence Beijing Agricultural Drought Vulnerability. Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture VII (2014): 392-403. 17. Iglesias, A., Moneo, M., & Quiroga, S. (2007). Methods for evaluating social vulnerability to drought. OPTIONS Méditerranéennes. Série B: Etudes et Recherches (CIHEAM).

Iglesias, A., Moneo, M., & Quiroga, S. (2009). Methods for evaluating social vulnerability to drought. In Coping with Drought Risk in Agriculture and Water Supply Systems (pp. 153-159). Springer Netherlands.

18. Jain, V. K., Pandey, R. P., & Jain, M. K. (2015). Spatio-temporal assessment of vulnerability to drought. Natural Hazards, 76(1), 443-469.

19. Jiang, Guiqin,, Yu Fuliang, and Zhao Yong (2012). An analysis of vulnerability to agricultural drought in China using the expand grey relation analysis method. Procedia Engineering 28: 670-676.

20. Jordaan, A. J. (2012). Drought Risk Reduction in the Northern Cape, South Africa. PhD, University of the Free State Bloemfontein

21. Karavitis C. (2012) Drought vulnerability assessment - introduction and theoretical background in DMCSEE Summary of projects results Karavitis C et al (2012) Drought impacts archive and drought vulnerability index, in DMCSEE Summary of projects results 22. Kim, H., Park, J., Yoo, J., & Kim, T. W. (2013). Assessment of drought hazard, vulnerability, and risk: A case study for administrative districts in South Korea. Journal of Hydro-environment Research. 23. Kipketer, J and Mundia. (2014, January). Drought Risk and Vulnerability Assessment; A Case Study Of Baringo County, Kenya. In Scientific Conference Proceedings.

24. Kumar, R. (2008). Studies on assessment of vulnerability to drought. National Institute of Hydrology, India (PPT)

25. Liu, X., Wang, Y., Peng, J., Braimoh, A. K., & Yin, H. (2013). Assessing vulnerability to drought based on exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity: A case study in middle Inner Mongolia of China. Chinese Geographical Science, 23(1), 13-25.

26. Long X., Lin, Z., Shengkui, C., & Suchuang, D. (2011). Quantitative Assessment and Spatial Characteristics of Agricultural Drought Risk in the Jinghe Watershed, Northwestern China. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2(4), 338-344. 27. Moring A, Ákos Németh, Zita Bihari (2012) Estimation and mapping of drought vulnerability on the basis of climate, land use and soil parameters using GIS technique. Final conference of DMCSEE project Ljubljana, Slovenia (ppt)

Perčec Tadić, M., Gajić-Čapka, M., Zaninović, K., & Cindrić, K. (2014). Drought vulnerability in Croatia. Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus (ACS),79(1), 31-38.

28. Murthy, C. S., Yadav, M., Ahamed, J. M., Laxman, B., Prawasi, R., Sai, M. S., & Hooda, R. S. (2015). A study on agricultural drought vulnerability at disaggregated level in a highly irrigated and intensely cropped state of India. Environmental monitoring and assessment, 187(3), 1-14.

29. Naumann, G., P. Barbosa, et al. (2013). Exploring drought vulnerability in Africa: an indicator based analysis to inform early warning systems. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 10(10): 12217-12254.

30. Pandey, Rajendra Prasad, et al (2010). Integrating hydro-meteorological and physiographic factors for assessment of vulnerability to drought. Water resources management 24.15 (2010): 4199-4217.

31. Pereira, D.., Rocha, J. D., Debortoli, N., Parente, I. I., Eiró, F., Bursztyn, M., & Rodrigues-Filho, S. (2014). Integrated assessment of smallholder farming’s vulnerability to drought in the Brazilian Semi-arid: a case study in Ceará. Climatic Change, 1-13.

Pereira et al (2011) Climate Change And Vulnerability To Drought In The Semiarid: The Case Of Smallholder Farmers In The Brazilian Northeast; in da Motta, R. S., et al eds. (2010). Climate Change in Brazil: Economic, social and regulatory aspects. Brasilia, IPEA, 2011.

32. Safavi, Hamid R., Mehrdad Khoshoei Esfahani, and Ahmad R. Zamani (2014) . Integrated Index for Assessment of Vulnerability to Drought, Case Study: Zayandehrood River Basin, Iran. Water Resources Management 28.6: 1671-1688. 33. Salvati, Luca, et al (2009). Developing a synthetic index of land vulnerability to drought and desertification. Geographical research 47.3: 280-291. 34. Shahid, Shamsuddin, and Houshang Behrawan. ‘Drought Risk Assessment in the Western Part of Bangladesh’. Natural Hazards 46, no. 3 (1 September 2008): 391–413.

35. Shiau, Jenq-Tzong, and Ya-Yi Hsiao. Water-deficit-based drought risk assessments in Taiwan. Natural hazards 64.1 (2012): 237-257. 36. Simelton, Elisabeth, et al. (2009) Typologies of crop-drought vulnerability: an empirical analysis of the socio-economic factors that influence the sensitivity and resilience to drought of three major food crops in China (1961–2001). Environmental Science & Policy 12.4 (2009): 438-452. 37. Simelton, Elisabeth, et al.(2012) The socioeconomics of food crop production and climate change vulnerability: a global scale quantitative analysis of how grain crops are sensitive to drought. Food Security 4.2: 163-179. 38. Sookhtanlo, Mojtaba, Hesamedin Gholami, and Seyyed Reza Es’haghi (2013). Drought Risk Vulnerability Parameters among Wheat Farmers in Mashhad County, Iran. International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development 3.4 (2013): 227-236. Khoshnodifar, Z., M. Sookhtanlo, and H. Gholami. (2012) Identification and measurement of indicators of drought vulnerability among wheat farmers in Mashhad Country, Iran. Journals of Annals Biological Research 3 (2012): 4593-4600. 39. Sreedhar, G., Mishra, S. S., Nagarjan, R., & Balaji, V. (2012). Micro-level Drought Vulnerability Assessment in Peddavagu basin, a Tributary of Krishna River, Andhra Pradesh, India. Earthzine. 40. Swain, Mrutyunjay, and Mamata Swain (2011). Vulnerability to Agricultural Drought in Western Orissa: A Case Study of Representative Blocks. Agricultural Economics Research Review 24.1 Swain, Mrutyunjay; Swain, Mamata (2011): Drought Vulnerability, Coping Capacity and Residual Risk: Evidence from Bolangir District in Odisha, India. Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management 3.4 n/a. 41. Villholth, K. G., et al. (2013) Integrated mapping of groundwater drought risk in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Hydrogeology Journal 21.4 (2013): 863-885.

Villholth, Karen G., et al. (2011), Groundwater drought vulnerability mapping in the SADC region. Researcher’s day. Climate Change Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation, University of Copenhagen, (ppt)

42. Wilhelmi, O. V., and D. A. Wilhite. (2002). Assessing Vulnerability to Agricultural Drought: A Nebraska Case Study. Natural Hazards 25, no. 1 (1 January 2002): 37–58.

Wilhelmi, O. V. (1999). Methodology for assessing vulnerability to agricultural drought: A Nebraska case study.

43. Wu, Di, et al.(2013) Assessment on agricultural drought vulnerability in the Yellow River basin based on a fuzzy clustering iterative model. Natural hazards 67.2: 919-936.

44. Yuan, X. C., Wang, Q., Wang, K., Wang, B., Jin, J. L., & Wei, Y. M. (2013). China’s regional vulnerability to drought and its mitigation strategies under climate change: data envelopment analysis and analytic hierarchy process integrated approach. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 1-19. 45. Zarafshani, K., Sharafi, L., Azadi, H., Hosseininia, G., De Maeyer, P., & Witlox, F. (2012). Drought vulnerability assessment: the case of wheat farmers in western Iran. Global and Planetary Change, 98, 122-130. 46. Zhang, Qiang, et al. (2014) Assessment of drought vulnerability of the Tarim River basin, Xinjiang, China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology: 1-11.

Drought vulnerability assessments excluded from the review Abraham, Joseph S., and Andrew Comrie. (2005) Drought Vulnerability of Community Water Systems in northern Gila County, Arizona. Abraham, Joseph. Assessing drought vulnerability. (2006). (PhD Dissertation) Andrade, M. I., Laporta, P. y Iezzi, L. (2009) Sequías en el sudoeste bonaerense: Vulnerabilidad e incertidumbre [En línea]. Geograficando,5(5). En: http://www.fuentesmemoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/art_revistas/pr.4450/pr.4450.pdf Angeluccetti, Irene (2014). Vulnerability analysis in an Early Warning System for drought. (PhD Dissertation) Arshad, S., Morid, S., Mobasheri, M. R., & Agha Alikhani, M. (2007). Development of Agricultural Drought Risk Assessment Model for Kermanshah Province (Iran), using Satellite data and Intelligent Methods. In Proceeding: The first international conference on Drought Management, Zaragoza, Spain (Vol. 12, pp. 303-310). Asrari, E., & Masoudi, M. 2014 A New Methodology for Drought Vulnerability Assessment Using SPI (Standardized Precipitation Index). International Journal of Scientific Research in Knowledge, 2(9), pp. 425-432, 2014 Batisani, N. (2011). The spatio-temporal-severity dynamics of drought in Botswana. Journal of Environmental Protection, 2(06), 803. Belal, Abdel-Aziz, et al. (2014) Drought risk assessment using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 7.1: 35-53. Benzie, Magnus, et al. Vulnerability to heatwaves and drought: adaptation to climate change. York, UK: The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2011). Bharwani, S., Downing, T., Haase, D., Pahl-Wostl, C., Taylor, A., & Shale, M. (2008). Dynamic Vulnerability: Learning from NeWater Case Studies (NeWater Deliverable No. D 2.1. 2). Brant, Simone. Assessing vulnerability to drought in Ceará, northeast Brazil. (2007). Cancelliere, A., Nicolosi, V., & Rossi, G. (2009). Assessment of drought risk in water supply systems. In Coping with drought risk in agriculture and water supply systems (pp. 93-109). Springer Netherlands. Chandrappagari, Suvarna, and Somesh Kumar. Vulnerability Assessment for Integrated Development of Natural Resources on Watershed basis in Drought Prone Areas of Andhra Pradesh, India. IUFRO World Series Vol. 29 (2011): 19. Charusombat, U., & Niyogi, D. (2011). A hydroclimatological assessment of regional drought vulnerability: A case study of Indiana droughts. Earth Interactions, 15(26), 1-65. Chen, Junfei, et al. Variable Fuzzy Assessment for Regional Agricultural Drought Risk: A Case Study of Yunnan Province, China. A A 2 (2012): 1. Commission on Water Resource Management CWRM (2003), Drought Risk and Vulnerability Assessment and GIS Mapping Project, Hawai CONAGUA , Analisis espacial de las regiones más vulnerables ante las sequías en México, SEMARNAT. http://www.conagua.gob.mx/CONAGUA07/Publicaciones/Publicaciones/sequiasB.pdf Contreras, D. and S. Kienberger, Eds. (2011). MOVE- Methods for the Improvement of the Vulnerability Assessment in Europe - Handbook of Vulnerability Assessment in Europe. Dalezios, N. R., et al. Risk identification of agricultural drought for sustainable agroecosystems. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions 2.4 (2014): 3097-3135. Derbile, E.K. Reducing vulnerability of rain-fed agriculture to drought through indigenous knowledge systems in north-eastern Ghana. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 5(1), 71- 94. Do, N., & Kang, S. (2014). Assessing drought vulnerability using soil moisture-based water use efficiency measurements obtained from multi-sensor satellite data in Northeast Asia dryland regions. Journal of Arid Environments, 105, 22-32. Drought in Mekong River and Vulnerability of Livelihood (Doctoral dissertation, Lund University). Erian, W., Katlan, B., & Babah, O. (2011). Drought vulnerability in the Arab region: Special case study: Syria. Syria, Background paper prepared for the 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010. Eriksen, S. H., Brown, K., & Kelly, P. M. (2005). The dynamics of vulnerability: locating coping strategies in Kenya and Tanzania. The geographical journal, 171(4), 287-305. Eriksen, S., & Silva, J. A. (2009). The vulnerability context of a savanna area in Mozambique: household drought coping strategies and responses to economic change. Environmental Science & Policy, 12(1), 33-52. Finan, T. J., & Nelson, D. R. (2001). Making rain, making roads, making do: public and private adaptations to drought in Ceará, Northeast Brazil. Climate Research, 19(2), 97-108. Frei, A., Armstrong, R. L., Clark, M. P., & Serreze, M. C. (2002). Catskill Mountain water resources: vulnerability, hydroclimatology, and climate-change sensitivity. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92(2), 203-224. Frei, A., Armstrong, R. L., Clark, M. P., & Serreze, M. C. (2002). Catskill Mountain water resources: vulnerability, hydroclimatology, and climate-change sensitivity. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92(2), 203-224. Gan, T. Y. (2000). Reducing vulnerability of water resources of Canadian prairies to potential droughts and possible climatic warming. Water Resources Management, 14(2), 111-135. Gbetibouo, Glwadys A., Claudia Ringler, and Rashid Hassan. Vulnerability of the South African farming sector to climate change and variability: An indicator approach. Natural Resources Forum. Vol. 34. No. 3. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010. Gómez Gómez, Carlos Mario, and Carlos Dionisio Pérez Blanco. Do drought management plans reduce drought risk? A risk assessment model for a Mediterranean river basin. Ecological Economics 76 (2012): 42-48. Gómez Rivera, S. N. (2003). Análisis de vulnerabilidad con énfasis en sequía en la subcuenca del río Aguas Calientes, Somoto, Nicaragua. thesis Gómez, C. M. G., & Blanco, C. D. P. (2012). 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Nour El-Din Fawzia I. Moursy (2009) Vulnerability Assessment of Water Resources Systems in the Eastern Nile Basin. Water Resour Manage (2009) 23:2697–2725 Hao, L., Zhang, X., & Liu, S. (2012). Risk assessment to China’s agricultural drought disaster in county unit. Natural hazards, 61(2), 785-801. He, B., Wu, J., Lü, A., Cui, X., Zhou, L., Liu, M., & Zhao, L. (2013). Quantitative assessment and spatial characteristic analysis of agricultural drought risk in China. Natural hazards, 66(2), 155-166. Hill, Troy D., and Colin Polsky. Suburbanization and drought: A mixed methods vulnerability assessment in rainy Massachusetts. Environmental Hazards 7.4 (2007): 291-301. Iglesias, A., Cancelliere, A., Cubillo, F., Garrote, L., & Wilhite, D. A. (2009).Coping with drought risk in agriculture and water supply systems. Dordrecht: Springer. Imani, Y., Lahlou, O., Bennasser Alaoui, S., Naumann, G., Barbosa, P., & Vogt, J. (2014, May). Drought vulnerability assessment and mapping in Morocco. 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Table SM1. Reviewed DVAs Title Year Scale Location Vulnerability of rural Sahelian Households to Drought: options for adaptation 2007 Subnational Africa Overview of the Colorado Drought Vulnerability Assessment by Sector- Methods, Results, 2012 Subnational North America Challenges and Opportunities A new approach to quantifying and comparing vulnerability to drought 2008 Subnational Europe Mapping the vulnerability of crop production to drought in Ghana using rainfall,yield and 2012 National Africa socioeconomic data Future drought impact and vulnerability - case study scale 2014 Subnational Europe Vulnerability to drought cyclones and floods-India 2007 Subnational Asia Identification of Agricultural Drought Vulnerable Areas of Tamil Nadu, India—Using GIS Based 2009 Subnational Asia Multi Criteria Analysis Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation of Drought Vulnerability Based on the Analytic Hierarchy 2010 Subnational Asia Process Methodological approach considering different factors influencing vulnerability – pan-European 2015 Continental Europe scale Vulnerability of rural communities in the Mediterranean region to climate change and water 2010 National Europe scarcity: the case of Cyprus Mapping Drought Patterns and Impacts: A Global Perspective 2009 Global World Climate Adaptation – modeling water scenarios and sectoral impacts 2011 Continental Europe Assessing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Impact-Based Method and Application to Drought in 2009 Subnational North America Washington State Vulnerability hotspots: Integrating socio-economic and hydrological models to identify where 2013 Global World cereal production may decline in the future due to climate change induced drought Village-level Drought Vulnerability Assessment Using Geographic Information System (GIS) 2013 Subnational Asia The Vulnerability Assessment Method for Beijing Agricultural Drought 2014 Subnational Asia Chapter 10. Methods for evaluating social vulnerability to drought 2007 Regional Mediterranean Spatio-temporal assessment of vulnerability to drought 2015 Subnational Asia An Analysis of Vulnerability to Agricultural Drought in China Using the Expand Grey Relation 2012 National Asia Analysis Method Drought Risk Reduction in the Northern Cape, South Africa 2012 Subnational Africa Drought impacts archive and drought vulnerability index 2011 National Europe Assessment of drought hazard, vulnerability, and risk: A case study for administrative districts in 2013 National Asia South Korea Drought risk and vulnerability assessment; a case study of Baringo county, kenya 2014 Subnational Africa Title Year Scale Location Studies on assessment of vulnerability to drought 2013 Subnational Asia Assessing Vulnerability to Drought Based on Exposure, Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity: A 2013 Subnational Asia Case Study in Middle Inner Mongolia of China Quantitative Assessment and Spatial Characteristics of Agricultural Drought Risk in the Jinghe 2011 Subnational Asia Watershed, Northwestern China Estimation and mapping of drought vulnerability on the basis of climate, land use and soil 2012 Regional Europe parameters using GIS technique A study on agricultural drought vulnerability at disaggregated level in a highly irrigated and 2015 Subnational Asia intensely cropped state of India Exploring drought vulnerability in Africa: an indicator based analysis to inform early warning 2013 Continental Africa systems Integrating Hydro-Meteorological and Physiographic Factors for Assessment of Vulnerability to 2010 Subnational Asia Drought Drought Vulnerability in Croatia 2014 National Europe Integrated assessment of smallholder farming’s vulnerability to drought in the Brazilian Semi-arid: 2014 Subnational South America a case study in Ceará Integrated Index for Assessment of Vulnerability to Drought, Case Study: Zayandehrood River 2014 Subnational Asia Basin, Iran. Developing a synthetic index of land vulnerability to drought and desertification 2009 National Europe Drought risk assessment in the western part of Bangladesh 2008 Subnational Asia Water-deficit based drought risk assessments in Taiwan 2012 Subnational Asia Typologies of crop-drought vulnerability: an empirical analysis of the socio-economic factors that 2009 National Asia influence the sensitivity and resilience to drought of three major food crops in China (1961–2001) Drought Risk Vulnerability Parameters among Wheat Farmers in Mashhad County, Iran 2013 Subnational Asia Micro-level Drought Vulnerability Assessment in Peddavagu basin, a Tributary of Krishna River, 2013 Subnational Asia Andhra Pradesh, India Vulnerability to Agricultural Drought in Western Orissa: A Case Study of Representative Blocks 2011 Subnational Asia Groundwater drought vulnerability/ Integrated mapping of groundwater drought risk in the 2011 Regional Africa Southern African Development Community (SADC) region Assessing Vulnerability to Agricultural Drought: A Nebraska Case Study 2002 Subnational North America Assessment on agricultural drought vulnerability in the Yellow River basin based on a fuzzy 2013 Subnational Asia clustering iterative model China’s regional vulnerability to drought and its mitigation strategies under climate change: data 2013 Subnational Asia envelopment analysis and analytic hierarchy rocessintegrated approach Drought vulnerability assessment: The case of wheat farmers in Western Iran 2012 Subnational Asia Assessment of drought vulnerability of the Tarim River basin, Xinjiang, China 2014 Subnational Asia 3. Drought impacts registered by EMDATA (1990 – 2014)

Table SM2. Drought events from 1990 to 2014

Country Total_affected Total_damage Occurrence Afghanistan 6510000 142050 4 Algeria 0 0 1 Angola 1963900 0 4 Argentina 0 120000 2 Armenia 297000 100000 1 Australia 7000000 3973000 4 Azerbaijan 0 100000 1 Bangladesh 0 0 1 Barbados 0 0 1 Bolivia 838515 100000 7 Bosnia- Hercegovina 62575 298000 2 Botswana 100000 0 2 Brazil 12062000 7532000 10 Bulgaria 0 0 1 Burkina Faso 5546290 0 5 Burundi 3062500 0 6 Cambodia 6550000 138000 4 Cameroon 186900 0 3 Cape Verde Is 40000 0 3 Chad 5456000 0 5 Chile 0 200000 1 China P Rep 415274000 25110415 26 Colombia 100000 0 1 Costa Rica 0 24000 2 Croatia 0 330000 1 Cuba 820000 183139 4 Cyprus 0 0 2 Denmark 0 751700 1 Djibouti 933008 0 6 Ecuador 144665 1700 3 El Salvador 400000 220400 4 Eritrea 5600000 0 3 Ethiopia 39491879 15600 9 Fiji 263455 0 1 France 0 10000 2 Gambia The 428000 0 2 Georgia 696000 200000 1 Greece 0 1000000 1 Country Total_affected Total_damage Occurrence Grenada 0 0 1 Guatemala 2880081 24000 4 Guinea 0 0 1 Guinea Bissau 132000 0 2 Guyana 607200 43700 2 Haiti 1035000 0 3 Honduras 585625 10000 8 Hungary 0 484000 2 India 351175000 2041122 5 Indonesia 1080000 89000 2 Iran Islam Rep 37000000 3300000 1 Iraq 0 0 1 Israel 0 75000 1 Italy 0 1990000 3 Jamaica 0 6000 1 Jordan 330000 0 2 Kenya 46150000 0 9 Kiribati 84000 0 1 Korea Dem P Rep 3000000 0 1 Korea Rep 0 0 1 Kyrgyzstan 2000000 0 1 Lao P Dem Rep 20000 1000 2 Lesotho 2032015 0 4 Lithuania 0 278473 2 Macedonia FRY 10000 0 1 Madagascar 1565290 0 4 Malawi 20149435 0 6 Malaysia 5000 0 1 Mali 5427000 0 6 Marshall Is 6384 0 1 Mauritania 3005907 0 5 Mauritius 0 175000 1 Mexico 2565000 1610000 5 Micronesia Fed States 28800 0 1 Moldova Rep 216194 406000 3 Mongolia 450000 0 1 Morocco 275000 900000 1 Mozambique 6999500 50000 9 Namibia 1114200 115000 6 Nepal 503000 0 2 New Zealand 0 923000 2 Country Total_affected Total_damage Occurrence Nicaragua 553000 18000 4 Niger 19123058 0 6 Pakistan 2200000 247000 1 Panama 0 200000 1 Papua New Guinea 500000 0 1 Paraguay 1777890 0 6 Peru 3321500 286000 5 Philippines 2854282 64453 4 Portugal 0 1348136 2 Puerto Rico 0 2000 1 Romania 0 500000 1 Russia 1000000 2540000 5 Rwanda 1976545 0 3 Senegal 1134000 0 2 Solomon Is 380 0 2 Somalia 11700000 0 6 South Africa 15300000 1000000 3 Spain 6000000 7700000 2 Sri Lanka 2800000 0 2 St Lucia 0 0 1 Sudan 18860000 0 6 Swaziland 1630000 1739 3 Syrian Arab Rep 1629000 0 2 Tajikistan 3800000 57000 2 Tanzania Uni Rep 10654000 0 6 Thailand 29982602 424300 8 Timor-Leste 0 0 1 Trinidad and Tobago 0 0 1 Tuvalu 0 0 1 Uganda 3850000 1600 6 Ukraine 0 1690000 1 United States 0 39135000 11 Uruguay 0 250000 1 Uzbekistan 600000 50000 1 Venezuela 0 0 1 Viet Nam 6110000 649120 4 Yugoslavia 0 1000000 1 Zambia 4173204 0 3 Zimbabwe 17022618 50000 6 Total general 1172810397 110285647 375 4. Definitions of vulnerability present in the reviewed DVAs

Table SM 3. Vulnerability definitions included in DVA reviewed

References Vulnerability definition Adepetu and Berthe The capacity of individuals and social groups in the Sahel to respond to – that is, to cope 2007 with, recover from, or adapt to – any drought- elated stress placed on their livelihood. Aggett 2012; CWCB Vulnerability: The susceptibility to injury or damage from hazards. (Godschalk 1991, 132) 2010 Alcamo et al 2008 Susceptibility: the capability of an individual, community, or state to resist and/or recover (based on 3 studies) from crises brought about by environmental stress (Alcamo 2001) The degree to which an environmental or social system is susceptible to, or unable to cope Antwi-Agyei et al 2012 with, adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes IPCC 2001 Vulnerability of each Case Study (either water system or specific sector) to a drought event Assimacopoulos et al of specific characteristics (severity, duration, spatial extent) is expressed as a function of 2014 exposure (E), sensitivity (S) and adaptive capacity (A) Bhattacharya and Das Vulnerability of an entity is a function exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity, IPCC 2007 2001 Vulnerability identifies the degree to which a system is susceptible or unable to cope with Chandrasekar et al 2009 adverse effect of climate. Riebau and Fox 2005 Cheng and Tao 2010 To anticipate and cope with the drought The degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with, adverse effects of Deems 2010/ Deems climate change, including climate variability and extremes. Vulnerability is a function of the and Brugemann 2010 character, magnitude, and rate of climate variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity, and its adaptive capacity IPCC 2001 Vulnerability is defined as the degree to which a system is susceptible to, and unable to Florke et al 2011 cope with, injury damage or harm IPCC 2001 The degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with drought. Vulnerability is a function of the character, magnitude, and rate of climate variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity, and its adaptive capacity IPCC 2001 De Stefano et al 2015 Vulnerability of a system is determined by an external dimension, defined by the characteristics of the hazard, and an internal dimension that comprises its sensitivity or the conditions of the system that reduce or exacerbate impacts, and its capacities to mitigate, respond or adapt to those impacts Vulnerability refers to the characteristics of a group in terms of its capacity to anticipate, Iglesias et al 2007/2009 cope with, resist and recover from the impact of drought. Vulnerability to drought refers to the degree of exposure to water deficit. Areas that have Jain et al 2015 higher exposure and low coping capabilities would have the highest risk from a given drought event and vice versa Vulnerability to agricultural drought means that the extent of agriculture potential sensibility Jiang et al 2012 to the drought threat (Liu et al 2002) The conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or Jordaan 2012 processes, which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazards (UNISDR, 2004). Vulnerability is a dynamic systemic attribute that fluctuates in time following the various Karavitis et al. 2011 changes that occur in the system of interest (Adger and Kelly, 1999; Dalziell and McManus, 2004; Leichenco and O’Brien, 2002; Luers, 2005; Miller et.al, 2010). Vulnerability is conceptualized to describe the degree to which a socio-economic system or Kim et al. 2013 physical assets are either susceptible or resilient to the impact of natural hazards (Wilhelmi and Wilhite, 2002). Condition resulting from social, economic, and environmental factors or processes, which Kipterer and Mundia increases susceptibility of agricultural systems to the impact of drought hazard (CWCB 2014 2010) Vulnerability refers to the frangible nature of a system faced with various types of potential Liu et al 2013 disasters Vulnerability refers to the potential for loss (Cutter 1993). Etkin et al. (2004) defines vulnerability as the propensity to suffer some degree of loss from a hazardous event, Long et al 2011 whereas Turner et al. (2003) defines it as the degree to which a system is likely to experience harm due to exposure to a hazard Agricultural drought vulnerability is a measure of the capacity of the agricultural area of an Murthy et al 2015 administrative unit to cope up with the drought situation. Vulnerability refers to the characteristics of a group in terms of its capacity to anticipate, Naumann et al 2014 cope with, resist and recover from the impact of drought. Vulnerability refers to the degree of susceptibility to a hazard either as the result of varying Pandey et al 2010 exposure to the hazard or because of variation in the ability to cope with its impact References Vulnerability definition Pereira et al 2014/ Vulnerability can be defined as the susceptibility of human systems to natural phenomena, Pereira et al 2011 and is frequently associated with specific losses or damages (Morton 2007). Social vulnerability to drought is complex and reflected by society’s capacity to anticipate, Safavi et al 2014 cope with and respond (Tsakiris and Pangalou 2009) Shahid and Behrawan Describes the degree to which a socio-economic system or physical assets are either 2008 susceptible or resilient to the impact of natural hazards (Wilhelmi and Wilhite 2002) Shiau and Hsiao 2012 Drought vulnerability measures lack of resistance to droughts Vulnerability’’ refers to the extent to which a drought of a given size (measured Simelton et al 2009 meteorologically) has an impact on agricultural production (measured in terms of harvest). Vulnerability of an agricultural system to diverse weather can be observed when relatively small weather anomalies have disproportionately large impacts on crop production. One reason for this may be that underlying socio-economic factors could have inhibited Simelton et al 2012 adaptation. Such vulnerable cases may be contrasted with situations where large weather anomalies seem to have caused little production loss. In these cases, fraser et al. (2011) hypothesize that underlying socioeconomic factors may have enhanced adaptive strategies (fraser 2007 and fraser et al 2011) The susceptibility of a system to disturbances determined by exposure to perturbations, Sookhtanlo et al 2013 sensitivity to perturbations, and the capacity to adapt (Nelson 2007) Set of conditions and /Khoshnodifar et al 2012 processes resulting from physical, social and economic factors, which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazards (ISDR 2004) Swain and Swain 2011 The composite of conditions and exposure to adverse processes that increase the (2 paper) susceptibility level of populations and their habitations to drought (UNEP 2001) The degree of susceptibility of society to a hazard, which could vary either as a result of Wilhelmi and Wilhite variable exposure to the hazard, or because of coping abilities Own definition based on 2002 others The property that the structure and function of a system (including subsystems and system Wu (Di) et al 2013 components) is prone to damage, due to its sensitivity to internal and external disturbances, as well as its lack of coping capacity respond to such circumstances (Li et al. 2008) Vulnerability is composed of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity (IPCC 2007; Polsky Yuan et al 2013 et al. 2007, Pandey and Jha 2012; Liu et al. 2013) The characteristics of a person or group in terms of their capacity to anticipate, resist, cope with, and recover from the impact of natural or man-made hazards (Blaikie et al., 1994; Zarafshani et al 2012 IFRC, 1999; Ethlet and Yates, 2005; Paavola, 2008). According to IPCC (2001), vulnerability is defined as the extent to which a natural or social system is susceptible to sustaining damage from climate change Vulnerability to a natural hazard is the degree of loss as a result of potential hazard in a Zhang et al 2014 given region (UN 1991), the potential maximum loss of life and property due to drought hazards in a given region during a given time period.