Driving Forces and Socio-Economic Impacts of Low-Flow Events in Central Europe: A Literature Review Using DPSIR Criteria

Recent drought events in Europe have highlighted the impact of hydrological and low-flow on society, ecosystems, economy. While there are numerous publications about flood risk management socio-economic consequences floods, these hardly been systematically dealt with scientific literature regarding low flows. This paper fills this gap by summarizing current state research form a systematic review combining criteria drivers–pressures–state–impacts–responses (DPSIR) framework propositional inventory method. In particular, driving forces events, their pressures, impacts different economic sectors such as navigation, fisheries, industry, agriculture, forestry, energy, tourism recreation well resulting competitive usage claims for water responses presented validated through expert interviews. doing so, study examines causal chain serves fundamental base future development damage cost database preparing data parameterization.