Journal of
Faculty of Civil Engineering

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CONTEMPORARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING 2016 , 2016.y., pp. 881-886

	DOI: 10.14415/konferencijaGFS 2016.089
	UDC: 551.577.38
	CC-BY-SA 4.0 license
	Author : Milanović, Mladen; Gocić, Milan; Trajković, Slaviša
	Summary:
	Drought consequences recently occurred show the great vulnerability of society and necessity of pro-active drought management. The increasing of drought vulnerability requests inclusion of local community in measures for drought mitigation. Therefore, the local community represents the first line in combat against drought. The combat against drought has included the measures that were used when drought occurred, while the new concept will include the measures which will be used before, during and after drought. In this paper, the role of local community in drought mitigation is shown. In order to mitigate the drought effects and to increase the resilience of local community on droughts in the future, the principles and aims of active and effective combat against drought are highlighted.
	Keywords:
	drought mitigation, local community, drought management.