H11O:
Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World I Understanding Trade-offs, Uncertainty, and Robustness

Session ID#: 4955

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3020 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Richmond Hill, Canada, Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, United States and Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
Primary Convener:  Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Richmond Hill, Canada
Co-conveners:  Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States and Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, Chapel Hill, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Richmond Hill, Canada
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H11O-01
Decision Support in a Changing and Contentious World--Successfully Supporting the Development of a 50-year Comprehensive Coastal Master Plan in Louisiana (Invited) (6962)
David G Groves, RAND Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States
H11O-02
Can Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing Lead to Less Expensive Achievement of More Natural River Flows? (Invited) (3840)
Jordan Kern, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States and Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, United States
H11O-03
When the 'soft-path' gets hard: demand management and financial instability for water utilities (20359)
Harrison Bray Zeff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, United States
H11O-04
Managing the financial risk of low water levels in Great Lakes with index-based contracts (14200)
Eliot Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States and Paul Moody, US Military Academy, West Point, NY, United States
H11O-05
What Is Robustness?: Problem Framing Challenges for Water Systems Planning Under Change (6842)
Jonathan D Herman, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States, Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Harrison Bray Zeff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES), Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, United States
H11O-06
New approaches to screening infrastructure investments in multi-reservoir systems– Evaluating proposed dams in Ethiopia and Kenya (18740)
Julien J Harou, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Robel Tilaye Geressu, University College London, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, London, United Kingdom and Anthony P Hurford, University College London, London, United Kingdom
H11O-07
Integrated and Sustainable Water Management of Red–Thai Binh Rivers System Under Change (10101)
Matteo Giuliani1, Daniela Anghileri2, Andrea Castelletti Prof3, Emanuele Mason3, Marco Micotti3, Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa3 and Enrico Weber3, (1)Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy, (2)ETH Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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