Climate Hazard Resilience Forum: Drought

Many communities face challenges related to drought and water availability and its impacts on ecosystems, people, and agriculture. But what to do about drought comes with tradeoffs and uncertainty. This forum activity brings participants through the resilience planning process around drought for a generic city, named Ottawatta. Participants use visualizations to explore potential vulnerabilities to city infrastructures, social networks, and ecosystems. They then discuss stakeholder values, consider trade-offs of various resilience strategies, make a final recommendation for increasing their city’s community resilience, and then use visualizations to see how their plan may affect the city and the people who live there. We encourage you to use this activity and then reflect on your experience and how your own community might prepare for drought.