GC31H:
Global and Regional Water-Food-Energy Security under Changing Environments I


Session ID#: 10191

Session Description:
Sustainable management of water resources is an overwhelming task, when faced with a growing population that is increasing its demand for food, energy and water. Ever-increasing demand worsens water scarcity, casting significant doubt on sustainability of food and energy production. Increasing dependence on non-renewable groundwater abstraction has been reported over intensely irrigated regions. Increasing socio-economic development and anticipated climate change will put further pressure on water, as well as agricultural and energy sectors. This session focuses on global and regional assessments of water-food-energy security. We invite submissions on: (i) development of new modeling frameworks identifying hotspots in water-food-energy security, (ii) observations identifying human and climate impacts on water, food or electricity production, and (iii) model- and data-based evaluations of sustainable adaptation strategies by integrating climate, hydrological, biological and social processes at global and regional scales in the face of a growing population and the full spectrum of climate change effects.
Primary Convener:  Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Conveners:  Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Martina Floerke, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany and Masih Akhbari, Riverside Technology Inc., Fort Collins, CO, United States
Chairs:  Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Martina Floerke, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
OSPA Liaison:  Masih Akhbari, Riverside Technology Inc., Fort Collins, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0495 Water/energy interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Satellite Observations of Groundwater Storage Variations and Their Application for Water Security Monitoring (Invited) (60895)
Matthew Rodell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, James S Famiglietti, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Bailing Li, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States and John T Reager II, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Advances in remote sensing for vegetation dynamics and agricultural management (75451)
Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States and Compton J Tucker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Water dependency and water exploitation at global scale as indicators of water security (79712)
A.P.J. De Roo1, Hylke Beck2, Peter Burek3 and Bisselink Bernard1, (1)Joint Research Center Ispra, Ispra, Italy, (2)Joint Research Center Ispra, Water Resources Unit, Ispra, Italy, (3)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Assessment of global water security: moving beyond water scarcity assessment (77912)
Animesh K Gain, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.4 Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany, Yoshihide Wada, Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands and Carlo Giupponi, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Deapartment of Economics, Venice, Italy
An integrated water-energy-food-livelihoods approach for assessing environmental livelihood security (72069)
John Duncan1, Eloise M Biggs2, Bryan Boruff3, Eleanor Bruce4, Andreas Neef5, Kellie McNeill5, Floris Frederik van Ogtrop6, Billy Haworth6, Stephanie Jane Duce6, Julia Horsley7, Natasha Pauli8, Jayne Curnow9 and Yukihiro Imanari10, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (3)The University of Western Australia, School of Agriculture and Environment, Perth, WA, Australia, (4)University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (5)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (6)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (7)University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, (8)University of Western Australia, School of Earth and Environment, Perth, Australia, (9)Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, Australia, (10)Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research, Kobe, Japan
Toward the Nexus Equation: A Conceptual and Mathematical Framework for Energy-Water-Food Nexus Analysis (75475)
Chad W Higgins, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States and Majdi Abou Najm, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Designing multi-reservoir system designs via efficient water-energy-food nexus trade-offs – Selecting new hydropower dams for the Blue Nile and Nepal’s Koshi Basin (Invited) (84490)
Julien J Harou, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Anthony Hurford, University of Manchester, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Manchester, United Kingdom and Robel Tilaye Geressu, University College London, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, London, United Kingdom
Contrasting rainfall declines in northern and southern Tanzania: Potential differential impacts of west Pacific warming and east Pacific cooling (65187)
Laura Harrison, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, James P Verdin, USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States, Diego H Pedreros, USGS Michigan Water Science Center, Lansing, MI, United States, Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Gregory J Husak, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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