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Drought and Communication Strategies

Friday 28 Mar 2025

On 3^rd March 2025, Kevin Collins gave a presentation on Drought and Communication Strategies to over 100 Environment Agency staff as part of the Agency’s Behavioural Science Webinars. This is an ongoing series of staff development webinars and Kevin is the first external speaker to be invited.

The presentation was based on Kevin’s 2023 contribution to the Environment Agency’s state-of-the-art report on drought. The full report, comprising contributions from the drought scientific community, is the most downloaded document on the Environment Agency Chief Scientist webpage:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-the-research-and-scientific-understanding-of-drought/review-of-the-research-and-scientific-understanding-of-drought-summary