H41L:
Water Footprint Assessment I

Session ID#: 4952

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3020 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Arjen Y. Y. Hoekstra, University of Twente, Water Engineering and Management group, Enschede, Netherlands, Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States and Sonia Yeh, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Saket Pande, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Co-conveners:  Arjen Y. Y. Hoekstra, University of Twente, Water Engineering and Management group, Enschede, Netherlands, Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Saket Pande, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1873 Uncertainty assessment [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H41L-01
Is the U.S. experience replicable? A decomposition of U.S. water use since 1950 (27892)
Peter Debaere, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
H41L-02
U.S. Biofuel Policies and Domestic Shifts in Agricultural Land Use and Water Balances (Invited) (5263)
Jacob Teter, Sonia Yeh and Gouri Shankar Mishra, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
H41L-03
An Economic Valuation Of The Water Footprint: A Case Study Of The Citrus Sector In The Lower Sundays River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa. (22513)
Samantha Alanna Munro, Gavin C.G Fraser and Jen D Snowball, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
H41L-04
Projections of Virtual Water Trade Under Agricultural Policy Scenarios in China (Invited) (5274)
Carole Dalin, University College London, Institute for Sustainable Resources, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy, and Resources, London, United Kingdom, Naota Hanasaki, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan, Huanguang Qiu, renmin univesity, School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Beijing, China, Denise L Mauzerall, Princeton University, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept., Princeton, NJ, United States and Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
H41L-05
Agricultural Virtual Water Flows in the USA (9746)
Megan Konar1, Qian Dang2 and Xiaowen Lin2, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
H41L-06
Water Footprint Assessment and the Panta Rhei research initiative of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). (Invited) (12570)
Hubert H G Savenije, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
H41L-07
Methodologies for Analyzing the Water Footprint of Cities (24686)
Willa Paterson1, Richard Rushforth2, Benjamin L Ruddell2, Ikechukwu Christopher Ahams1, Jorge A Gironas3, Megan Konar4, Ana Mijic5 and Alfonso Mejia6, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, (5)Imperial College London, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, United States
H41L-08
Water Footprint Assessment to support water resources management in the regulatory context: a case study in the Thames River Basin, UK (Invited) (21850)
Guoping Zhang1, Ruth E. Mathews1, Giuseppe Frapporti2, Mesfin Mergia Mekonnen3 and Arjen Y. Y. Hoekstra4, (1)Water Footprint Network, Enschede, Netherlands, (2)Environment Agency, Hatfield, United Kingdom, (3)The University of Alabama, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Tuscaloosa, United States, (4)University of Twente, Water Engineering and Management group, Enschede, Netherlands
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