GC32B:
Global and Regional Water-Food-Energy Security under Changing Environments II


Session ID#: 10192

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; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
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:  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
OSPA Liaison:  Reagan Waskom, Colorado State University, Colorado Water Institute, 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:

Globalization of water and food through international trade: impacts on food security, resilience and justice (Invited) (80591)
Paolo D'Odorico, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States; University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Joel A Carr, Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, David A Seekell, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Samir Suweis, University of Padova, Department of Physics, Padova, Italy
Trade in water and commodities as adaptations to global change (75644)
Richard B Lammers1, Thomas W Hertel2, Alexander A Proussevitch3, Uris Lantz C Baldos4, Steve E Frolking5, Jing LIU4 and Danielle S Grogan6, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Earth Sciences Research Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (4)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Energy Sector Adaptation in Response to Water Scarcity (Invited) (68989)
Nils Anders Johnson, Oliver Fricko, Simon Parkinson and Keywan Riahi, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
The Role of Demand Response in Reducing Water-Related Power Plant Vulnerabilities (Invited) (59465)
Jordan Macknick1, Gregory Brinkman2, Ella Zhou2, Matthew O'Connell2, Robin L Newmark3, Ariel Miara4 and Stuart Michael Cohen2, (1)National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, United States, (2)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (3)NREL, Golden, CO, United States, (4)CUNY Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, United States
Reducing water scarcity possible by 2050: Linking global assessments to policy dimensions (63853)
Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Tom Gleeson, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and Laurent Esnault, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
A new model for long-term global water demand projection (66085)
Ji Chen1, Bodong Xing2, Haiyun Shi3 and Bei Zhang2, (1)University of Hong Kong, Civil Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2)University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (3)Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Beijing, China
Integrated Model-Based Decisions for Water, Energy and Food Nexus (73161)
Xiaodong Zhang and Dr. Velimir monty V Vesselinov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Vulnerability of countries to food-production crises propagating in the virtual water trade network (75895)
Stefania Tamea1, Francesco Laio2 and Luca Ridolfi2, (1)Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, (2)Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

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