H33O:
Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World I


Session ID#: 10508

Session Description:
Water plays a critical role in sustaining human health, food security and ecosystem services. Population growth, climate and land use change increasingly threaten water quality and quantity. Successful management of water resources requires an integrative understanding of coupled human and natural system components that can be used to generate practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable solutions. This Water and Society session provides a forum for discussing the advances in water resources systems analysis, planning and management to inform public policy, water resource allocation, conflict resolution, water governance, and sustainable development in a changing world.
Primary Convener:  Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Richmond Hill, Canada
Conveners:  Gregory W Characklis, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, United States, Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States and Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
Chairs:  Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States and Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kaveh Madani, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Vulnerability and risk assessment for the management of changing water resources (Invited) (59987)
Howard S. Wheater, Centre for Hydrology and Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Climate and Humans as Amplifiers of Hydro-Ecologic Change: Science and Policy Implications for Intensively Managed Landscapes (Invited) (61590)
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou1,2, Jonathan A Czuba1,2, Patrick Belmont3, Peter R Wilcock4, Karen B Gran5 and Praveen Kumar6, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States, (4)Utah State University, Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States, (5)University of Minnesota Duluth, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Duluth, MN, United States, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
A New Global Metric of Water Scarcity Accounting for the Role of Storage (Invited) (61314)
Jim W Hall1, Franziska Gaupp1 and Simon J Dadson2, (1)University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Crop Insurance Increases Water Withdrawals for Irrigation in Agriculture (63513)

Megan Konar1, Tatyana Deryugina2 and Xiaowen Lin1, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Finance, Urbana, IL, United States
Scientific Insights for Managing Droughts in California (84911)
Josue Medellin-Azuara, University of California, Merced, Water Systems Management Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, United States, Jay R Lund, Center of Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Richard E Howitt, University of California Davis, Agricultural Economics, Davis, CA, United States, Duncan MacEwan, ERA Economics, Davis, CA, United States and Daniel A Sumner, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
A Screening-Level Approach for Comparing Risks Affecting Aquatic Ecosystem Services over Socio-Environmental Gradients (59349)
Thomas C Harmon1, Daniel Conde2, Sandra R R Villamizar3, Brian Reid4, Jaime Escobar5, James Rusak6, Natalia Hoyos7, Facundo Scordo8, Gerardo M Perillo8,9, M. Cintia Piccolo8,9, Mariana Zilio10, Maria Velez11 and The SAFER Project Team, (1)University of California Merced, School of Engineering, Merced, CA, United States, (2)Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, (3)University of California Merced, School of Engineering, Merced, United States, (4)Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia, Coyhaique, Chile, (5)Universidad del Norte, Ingeniería Civil y Ambiental, Barranquilla, Colombia, (6)Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Dorset Environmental Science Centre, Dorset, ON, Canada, (7)Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, (8)Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, (9)Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, (10)Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur UNS-CONICET, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, (11)University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada
Windows of Opportunity for Groundwater Management (66134)
Timothy Foster, Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States, Nicholas Brozovic, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States and Adrian P Butler, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Modeling and managing urban water demand through smart meters: Benefits and challenges from current research and emerging trends (72726)
Andrea Cominola1, Matteo Giuliani1, Andrea Castelletti1,2, Dario Piga3 and Andrea Emilio Rizzoli4, (1)Politecnico di Milano, Milano, 20133, Italy, (2)Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy, (3)IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy, (4)The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research, Lugano, Switzerland

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