GC24A:
Global and Regional Food and Water Security Under Increasing Socioeconomic Pressure and Changing Climate II

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Martina Floerke, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Primary Conveners:  Yoshihide Wada, Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
Co-conveners:  Debjani Deb, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Martina Floerke, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
OSPA Liaisons:  Yoshihide Wada, Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
New Challenges Linking Water, Climate, and Food Security
Peter Henry Gleick, Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA, United States
4:15 PM
 
Dependence of national consumption on unsustainable blue water footprints: A global overview
Arjen Y. Y. Hoekstra and Mesfin M Mekonnen, University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands
4:30 PM
 
Water Depletion Threatens Agriculture
Kate A Brauman1, Brian D Richter2, Sandra Postel3, Martina Floerke4 and Marcus Malsy4, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)The Nature Conservency, Crozet, VA, United States, (3)Global Water Policy Project, Los Lunas, NM, United States, (4)University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
4:45 PM
 
Uncertainties in Past and Future Global Water Availability
Justin Sheffield and Jonghun Kam, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
5:00 PM
 
Global land and water grabbing for food and bioenergy
Maria Cristina Rulli, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milano, 20133, Italy and Paolo D'Odorico, Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
5:12 PM
 
Impacts of Mega-droughts on Water and Food Security in the Indo-Gangetic Plains: A Paleoclimate Scenario Analysis
Tingju Zhu1, Gauthier Pitois1, Claudia Ringler1, Dingbao Wang2 and Mark W. Rosegrant1, (1)International Food Policy Research Institute, Environment and Production Technology Division, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States
5:24 PM
 
Co-location opportunities for renewable energy and agriculture in Northwestern India: Tradeoffs and Synergies
Sujith Ravi1,2, Jordan Macknick3, David B Lobell1, Christopher B Field1,4, Karthik Ganesan5, Rishabh Jain5, Michael Elchinger3 and Blaise Stoltenberg3, (1)Stanford University, Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Temple University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (3)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (4)Stanford University, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Council on Energy, Environment and Water, New Delhi, India
5:36 PM
 
Climate, Biofuels and Water: Projections and Sustainability Implications for the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Debjani Deb1, Pushpa Tuppad2, Prasad Daggupati1, Raghavan Srinivasan1 and Deepa Varma3, (1)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (2)S.J. College of Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering, Mysore, India, (3)Shell Technology Center Bangalore, Bangalore, India
5:48 PM
 
Vulnerability of U.S. Agriculture and Energy Sectors to Changes in Climate and Socioeconomics
Mohamad Issa Hejazi1, Nathalie Voisin2, Lu Liu3, Lisa Bramer4, Daniel Fortin4, Maoyi Huang5, John Hathaway4, Page Kyle4, L. Ruby Leung5, Hong-Yi Li6, Ying Liu7, Pralit Patel1, Trenton Pulsipher8, Jennie Rice4, Teklu K Tesfa4, Chris R Vernon8 and Yuyu Zhou9, (1)Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (2)PNNL, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Lab, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Pacific NW Nat'l Lab-Atmos Sci, Richland, WA, United States, (6)Pac NW National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (7)PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (9)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States