Browne, A. L., Dury, S., de Boer, C., la Jeunesse, I. & Stein, U. (2016) Governing for drought and water scarcity adaptation and resilience in the context of flood disaster recovery: The curious case of Somerset, United Kingdom, in Bressers, H., Bressers, N. & Larrue, C. (eds.) Governance for Drought Resilience: Land and Water Drought Management in Europe, (eBook), Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 83-108.

This book presents the findings of a team of scientists and practitioners who have been working on the project “Benefits of Governance in Drought Adaptation” (in short: the DROP project), which is included in the European Union’s INTERREG IVB NWE programme. The DROP governance team developed a Governance Assessment Tool (GAT), which allows the governance setting of a given region for planning and realizing drought adaptation measures to be assessed. Based on this assessment, recommendations can be developed for regional water authorities concerning how to operate most effectively towards increased drought resilience in this context. The GAT has been applied to six regions in Northwest Europe: Twente and Salland in the Netherlands, Eifel-Ruhr in Germany, Brittany in France, Somerset in the United Kingdom, and Flanders in Belgium. These regions are subject to drought aspects related to nature, agriculture and freshwater.

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