Hidrológiai Közlöny, 2017 (97. évfolyam)
2017 / 3. szám - MANAGING WATER QUALITY (ONGOING PROJECTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES) - Sušnik, Andreja - Gregorič, Gregor - Szalai Sándor - Bokal, Sabina: Towards efficient and operative drought management in the Danube region. The DriDanube project - Drought risk in the Danube Region
Andreja Susnik et al: Towards efficient and operative drought management in the Danube region 53 CONCLUSION Drought is becoming one of the main topics for water management in the near future ( https://www.icpdr.org/ flowpaper/viewer/default/files/nodes/documents/ icpdr_report_on_2015 droughtsinthe danube _river_final.pdf),but it is still not considered an issue of high priority despite its impacts on the economy and welfare of the people. DriDanube wants to change this and move from mainly ad-hoc drought response to a pro-active response based on risk management procedures. Cooperation and capacities among all relevant institutions must be strengthened and the current slow reactions during drought must be speeded up with an improved decision-making process in all parts of the drought management cycle (monitoring-impact assessment-response-recovery-preparedness). This will lead to an increased awareness throughout the Danube region. THE AUTHORS ANDREJA SUSNIK works in the Agrometeorological Department of the Meteorological Office at the Slovenian Environment Agency. She holds a PhD in Agronomy, with emphasis on agrometeorology. Being the head of the Agrometeorological Department, her work is mainly focused on operational agrometeorology. Besides, she has been coordinating the activities of the Drought Management Centre for South-Eastern Europe since 2006. The main areas of her work are developing agrometeorological services for different stakeholders, preparing strategic documents related to vulnerability assessments and adaptating agriculture to climate change, developing drought monitoring tools and methodology and management on national and international scale. She has been involved in the work and coordination of many national and international projects (including the DriDanube project) and working groups related to agrometeorology/drought management. She also leads learning activities with different target groups. GREGOR GREGORIC has obtained B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in meteorology from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, where he had a position as assistant lecturer between 1996 and 2010. Fie was assisting in courses of physical and dynamic meteorology. He is employed in Slovenian environmental agency (ARSO) since 2002. He has been appointed as member of ad-hoc national committee for estimation of drought impacts during drought episodes in 2003, 2006, 2007, 2012 and 2013. Since 2007 he acts as coordinator of activities of the Drought Management Center for Southeastern Europe (DMCSEE). Between 2009 and 2012 he coordinated the initial DMCSEE project (supported by the EU Transnational coordination programme, with 15 cooperating partner institutions). He has also coordinated one of the activities in IDMP CEE project (2012-2015). Currently he is a member of DriDanube ARSO project team. SÁNDOR SZALAI works in the Department of Water Management of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of Szent István University. He holds a Candidate of Science degree on climate modelling. He is a member of several national and international bodies, chair of the Adaptation to Climate Change Working Group of the Carpathian Convention, Agro- and Biometeorolog- ical Committee of the Hungarian Meteorlogical Society, Hydro- and Agrometeorological Subcommittee of the Meteorological Scientific Committee at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, etc. He has taken part in national and international projects such as the DMCSEE project. SABINA BOKAL has over 7 years of experience in environmental management, project planning and team leading. For the past four years, she has been working as a project manager with Global Water Partnership in CEE on developing and working on projects related to climate resilience, transboundary cooperation and waste water management. Since 2013 she has been coordinating an Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP) in CEE. Before that, she was involved in the Drought Management Centre for South- Eastern Europe (DMCSEE), building strategic partnerships and helping with project coordination. She received her degree in Geography from the University of Ljubljana and is passionate about water and sustainable development. She has completed courses in the areas of climate change, environmental policy and management, stakeholder engagement and EU funds.
