H12F:
Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World II Improving Management Institutions

Session ID#: 4956

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H12F-01
Planning and Design of Water Resources Systems Under Climate Change and Variability (Invited) (4891)
Kenneth M Strzepek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Cambridge, United States; United Nations University World Institute For Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland
H12F-02
Managing water with better institutions: Building flexibility, innovation and lessons of best practices (Invited) (20144)
Siwa Msangi, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, United States
H12F-04
Identifying Effective Policy and Technologic Reforms for Sustainable Groundwater Management in Oman (27008)
Kaveh Madani1, Slim Zekri2 and Akbar Karimi2, (1)United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Richmond Hill, Canada, (2)Sultan Qaboos University, Department of Natural Resources Economics, Muscat, Oman
H12F-05
Economic Value of Groundwater Protection: Implications for Drought Mitigation (18462)
Frank A Ward, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States
H12F-06
Optimal urban water conservation strategies considering embedded energy: coupling end-use and utility water-energy models. (26764)
Alvar Escriva-Bou1, Jay R Lund2, Manuel Pulido-Velazquez3, Edward S Spang4 and Frank J Loge4, (1)University of California Davis, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Davis, United States, (2)Center of Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (3)Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Research Institute of Water Engineering and Environment (IIAMA), Valencia,, Spain, (4)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
H12F-07
Adaptive Regulation of the Northern California Reservoir System for Water, Energy, and Environmental Management (22916)
Aris P. Georgakakos1, Martin Kistenmacher2, Huaming Yao2 and Konstantine P Georgakakos3, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Georgia Water Resources Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
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