2021
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1571
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Dry landscapes and parched economies: A review of how drought impacts nonagricultural socioeconomic sectors in the US Intermountain West

Abstract: From hampering the ability of water utilities to fill their reservoirs to leaving forests parched and ready to burn, drought is a unique natural hazard that impacts many human and natural systems. A great deal of research and synthesis to date has been devoted to understanding how drought conditions harm agricultural operations, leaving other drought‐vulnerable sectors relatively under‐served. This review aims to fill in such gaps by synthesizing literature from a diverse array of scientific fields to detail h… Show more

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“…Long‐lasting, costly, and spatially extensive, droughts exact an enormous toll on human and natural systems (Ding et al, 2011; Wilhite et al, 2007). In a previously published review article, we detailed how water utilities, forest resources, recreation and tourism, and public health suffer drought's effects in the Intermountain West (IMW) of the United States (Wlostowski et al, 2021). This semi‐arid, mountainous area is highly exposed to drought as a result of its large and growing population, low annual precipitation (Wise, 2012), the overallocation of limited surface water supplies (Adler, 2008), the importance of water‐reliant industries to the regional economy (Wlostowski et al, 2021), and the effects of climate change (Rajagopalan et al, 2009).…”
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“…Long‐lasting, costly, and spatially extensive, droughts exact an enormous toll on human and natural systems (Ding et al, 2011; Wilhite et al, 2007). In a previously published review article, we detailed how water utilities, forest resources, recreation and tourism, and public health suffer drought's effects in the Intermountain West (IMW) of the United States (Wlostowski et al, 2021). This semi‐arid, mountainous area is highly exposed to drought as a result of its large and growing population, low annual precipitation (Wise, 2012), the overallocation of limited surface water supplies (Adler, 2008), the importance of water‐reliant industries to the regional economy (Wlostowski et al, 2021), and the effects of climate change (Rajagopalan et al, 2009).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Drought conditions in the IMW, as in other semi‐arid, mountainous areas, evolve following a general pattern (Wlostowski et al, 2021). Drought typically begins with below‐average winter snowfall and reduced snow accumulation (Harpold et al, 2017; Mote et al, 2018), making snowpack a key predictor of seasonal drought conditions (Livneh & Badger, 2020).…”
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