Building a Drought Resilience Decision Support System Based on Expert Opinion

Although extensive research has been conducted on quantifying drought resilience around the world, a comprehensive study of the indicators used in drought resilience models has not previously been made. In an attempt to do so, an international consortium of researchers supported by the Belmont Forum created a survey for drought risk and resilience experts to rank the indicators. As a part of this research group, I will review the process of survey design, from the beginning brainstorms to group discussions to the reiterations after feedback. This project is two-fold, as I created a Decision Support System using early survey data during the survey-design process. The research contribution involves organizing and manipulating survey data, as well as the construction of an interactive tool which allows the user to manipulate visuals of the data through a webpage.