H41L:
Water Footprint Assessment I

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Arjen Y. Y. Hoekstra, University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands, Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Bridget R Scanlon, Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Sonia Yeh, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Saket Pande, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 5612, Netherlands
Co-conveners:  Arjen Y. Y. Hoekstra, University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands, Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Bridget R Scanlon, Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Saket Pande, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 5612, Netherlands

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Is the U.S. experience replicable? A decomposition of U.S. water use since 1950
Peter Debaere, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
8:15 AM
 
U.S. Biofuel Policies and Domestic Shifts in Agricultural Land Use and Water Balances
Jacob Teter, Sonia Yeh and Gouri Shankar Mishra, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
8:30 AM
 
An Economic Valuation Of The Water Footprint: A Case Study Of The Citrus Sector In The Lower Sundays River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Samantha Alanna Munro, Gavin C.G Fraser and Jen D Snowball, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
8:45 AM
 
Projections of Virtual Water Trade Under Agricultural Policy Scenarios in China
Carole Dalin, London School of Economics, London, WC2A, United Kingdom, Naota Hanasaki, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan, Huanguang Qiu, renmin univesity, School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Beijing, China, Denise L Mauzerall, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States and Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
9:00 AM
 
Agricultural Virtual Water Flows in the USA
Megan Konar, Qian Dang and Xiaowen Lin, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
9:30 AM
 
Methodologies for Analyzing the Water Footprint of Cities
Willa Paterson1, Richard Rushforth2, Benjamin L Ruddell2, Ikechukwu Chris Ahams1, Jorge A Gironas3, Megan Konar4, Ana Mijic5 and Alfonso Mejia1, (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, IL, United States, (5)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
9:45 AM
 
Water Footprint Assessment to support water resources management in the regulatory context: a case study in the Thames River Basin, UK
Guoping Zhang1, Ruth E. Mathews1, Giuseppe Frapporti2, Mesfin Mergia Mekonnen3 and Arjen Y. Y. Hoekstra3, (1)Water Footprint Network, Enschede, Netherlands, (2)Environment Agency, Hatfield, United Kingdom, (3)University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands
 
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