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Droughts in Europe under current and future climate - initial results of the EU-funded WATCH project
Using SIMGRO for drought analysis â as demonstrated for the Taquari Basin, Brazil
Tools were developed and tested to quantify spaceâtime development of droughts at the river basin scale. The spatial development of a hydrological drought in river basins brings different challenges to describe drought characteristics, such as: area in a drought and areal expressions for onset, duration and severity. We used the regional hydrological model SIMGRO in a GIS framework to generate the spatially-distributed time series for the drought analysis. Droughts in different hydrological variables (recharge and groundwater discharge) were identified by applying the fixed threshold concept to the time series. The method captures the development of both the duration and the severity of the area in a drought. The GIS helps to better understand the link between areal drought characteristics and spatially-distributed catchment characteristics. Functions, like agriculture, nature or navigation in a region, need to be considered more in defining the appropriate threshold levels. It is also important to take into account varying hydrological conditions like regions with deep or shallow groundwater levels, resulting in periods with capillary rise in the unsaturated zone in the latte
âMy room is the kitchenâ:Lived experiences of home-making, home-unmaking and emerging housing strategies of disadvantaged urban youth in austerity Ireland
The current Irish housing crisis shows that the 2008 financial crash lingers on in everyday lives and spaces. As especially poorer populations became increasingly excluded from affordable housing under austerity, it is increasingly felt as a âpersonal crisisâ. This paper explores the impacts of austerity on home-(un)making to reveal home as a place where austerity becomes âlivedâ and âfeltâ. Building on interviews with young people aged 18 to 25 in Cork and Dublin, it focusses on a group eager but unable to leave their parental home. Their experiences illustrate the immediate home-unmaking of austerity and the role of past memories and anticipated futures in home-unmaking under austerity. As future expectations and home-making strategies are adjusted to the austerity context, these reconfigure the facets and spheres through which crisis and austerity are experienced. The becoming-everyday of the financial crisis affects the places and spaces of everyday life, creating an all-encompassing âslow crisisâ that alters domestic routines and materialities, creates new forms of living together, and presents new strategies for housing and home-making. Housing and home are critical spheres through which austerity and recession become embedded in the everyday lives of disadvantaged urban youth and shape contemporary life courses in the city-after-austerity
Sense of Place as Spatial Control:Austerity and Place Processes Among Young People in Ballymun, Dublin
After the 2008 financial crisis, fiscal austerity policies have transformed the material and affective qualities of urban space. The material disruptions of austerity provide an opportunity to investigate the relationships between physical and social space. This chapter explores the impacts of austerity on sense of place for a group particularly affected by crisis and austerity, disadvantaged urban youth. Interviews with young adults from Ballymun, one of Dublinâs most deprived neighbourhoods, are analysed to understand the affective transformations of place under austerity. The six place processes, developed by Seamon (Life Takes Place: Phenomenology, Lifeworlds, and Place Making, Routledge, New York, 2018), are mobilised to illuminate the impact of austerity on the relations between people-in-place, the environmental ensemble, and common presence. Austerity negatively affected the formation of a sense of place among young adults. As their spatial neighbourhood identity remained strong, austerityâs negative effects on sense of place followed from an experienced loss of control over the spaces of everyday life.</p
Exclusion and Sense of Displacement Under Austerity:Experiences from Young Adults in Ballymun, Dublin
This article explores exclusion and sense of displacement through the austerity experiences of young adults in Ballymun, a disadvantaged urban neighbourhood in Dublin, Ireland. Such youth encountered exclusion on the labour market, urban housing, and support services. As austerity intensified urban exclusion, youthâs affective relations with their neighbourhood, their city, and the state transformed. Using the concept âat-homenessâ, it is argued that reduced income and funding for social services resulted locally in a partial âsense of displacementâ. Nationally, the class character of austerity reduced sense of belonging as youth felt betrayed and unfairly treated. It is argued that social, economic and political developments affect at-homeness, and that reduced sense of belonging induced by austerity can lead to a sense of displacement, not through physical movement, but by estrangement from the places one inhabits through processes of abandonment. Therefore, sense of displacement is expanded beyond gentrification as it can emerge from socio-economic transformations in a more-or-less stable physical and demographic environment
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