Paper short abstract:

The presentation explores the strategies (living or already in the passive memory) that a community is taking to diminish the negative effects of the drought.

Paper long abstract:

As a result of the global warming, weather changes have a more rapid effect on the climate of different regions, and the local population must confront them. One of the problems they are facing is the drought. During the centuries there have been developed local responses known by locals, the bearers of a long and lasting tradition of ecological knowledge. The year 2012 was, for example, in Northern Romania at least, a very dry one, and had affected on different levels the crops, the pastures and the hay production. The presentation is based on a research made during several years (2009-2019) in a small community in a mountain village of Maramures region, where the young generation is mainly involved into migration (in the closest cities, or in other countries). The paper will focus on the investigation of the actions taken to diminish the effects of the drought, but also on the memories (recovered by the research) of the older population who has more experience with the drought.