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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Kaveh Madani, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Casey M Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Kaveh Madani, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Patrick M. Reed, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States and Greogory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Kaveh Madani, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Planning and Design of Water Resources Systems Under Climate Change and Variability
Kenneth M Strzepek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; United Nations University World Institute For Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland
10:40 AM
 
Managing water with better institutions: Building flexibility, innovation and lessons of best practices
Siwa Msangi, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States
11:00 AM
 
Optimal Management of the Israeli National Water Supply System
Uri Shamir1,2, Mashor Housh3, Lea Kronaveter-Goldstein4, Dan Dvoskin5, Mordecai Feldman4 and Roni Shoval6, (1)Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, (2)Interdisciplinary Center, Management of National Resources, Herzliya, Israel, (3)Haifa University, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Haifa, Israel, (4)Consultant, Tel Aviv, Israel, (5)INFRES, Yaqum, Israel, (6)AGAT Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel
11:15 AM
 
Identifying Effective Policy and Technologic Reforms for Sustainable Groundwater Management in Oman
Kaveh Madani1, Slim Zekri2 and Akbar Karimi2, (1)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Sultan Qaboos University, Department of Natural Resources Economics, Muscat, Oman
11:30 AM
 
Economic Value of Groundwater Protection: Implications for Drought Mitigation
Frank A Ward, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States
11:45 AM
 
Optimal urban water conservation strategies considering embedded energy: coupling end-use and utility water-energy models.
Alvar Escriva-Bou1, Jay R Lund1, Manuel Pulido-Velazquez2, Edward S Spang1 and Frank J Loge1, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia,, Spain
12:00 PM
 
Adaptive Regulation of the Northern California Reservoir System for Water, Energy, and Environmental Management
Aris P. Georgakakos1, Martin Kistenmacher1, Huaming Yao1 and Konstantine P Georgakakos2, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States
 
See more of: Hydrology