Drought management is inefficient because feedbacks between drought and people are not fully understood. In this human-influenced era, we need to rethink the concept of drought to include the human role in mitigating and enhancing drought.
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Van Loon, A., Gleeson, T., Clark, J. et al. Drought in the Anthropocene. Nature Geosci 9, 89–91 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2646
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