H31O:
Water Resources, Climate Change, and Sustainability: Breakthroughs in Process Understanding, Data Availability, and Impact Assessment I


Session ID#: 10556

Session Description:
Water resources are threatened by climate change and human pressures. Climate change can severely affect the magnitude and timing of both water supply and water demand. Increasing human withdrawals puts additional stress on both water quantity and quality. This session seeks contributions that investigate associated vulnerabilities in water resource systems and explore for sustainable solutions from local to regional to global scales.  We invite novel datasets, modeling products and methodological advancements that address (1) natural and anthropogenic factors controlling water resource system vulnerability; (2) ensemble projection of future climate, demand as well as surface and groundwater supply; (3) methods that map vulnerability to drivers of change; and (4) ways to inform decision makers about vulnerability under ranges of natural and anthropogenic conditions. We particularly encourage submissions that recognize large uncertainties in current scenario-led assessments and attempt to bridge between social and policy components to natural science and water resource management.
Primary Convener:  Ali Nazemi, Concordia University, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Newark, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States and Robert Wilby, Loughborough University, Department of Geography, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Ali Nazemi, Concordia University, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada and Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Newark, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Newark, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Drivers And Uncertainties Of Increasing Global Water Scarcity (78437)
Stephan Pfister and Laura Scherer, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Water Availability Accounting for Human-Induced Water Stress (Invited) (60627)
Amir AghaKouchak, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States and Ali Mehran, University of North Georgia, Oakwood, GA, United States
Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Large-Scale Soil Moisture, its Temporal Variability and Associated Drought-Flood Risks (82899)
Georgia Destouni, Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden and Lucile Verrot, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Spatiotemporal Groundwater-Level Change for the Evaluation of Groundwater Use and Dynamics (Invited) (60987)
Kenneth C Carroll1, Spencer Willman2, Alexander Fernald3 and Steven Archambault2, (1)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (3)Department of Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA, Las Cruces, United States
Salinization of Freshwater-Dependent Coastal Ecosystems: Understanding Landscapes in Transition Along the Leading Edge of Climate Change (81081)
Ryan E Emanuel, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States, Emily S Bernhardt, Duke University, Biology, Durham, NC, United States, Marcelo Ardón, East Carolina University, Biology, Greenville, NC, United States, Justin P Wright, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, Todd BenDor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, City and Regional Planning, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Abinash Bhattachan, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
Climate change adaptation in a highly urbanized snowmelt dominated basin in Central Chile (80584)
Sebastian Vicuna1, Eduardo Bustos2, Pablo Merino3, Lenin Esau Henriquez Dole3, Sarah Jansen3, Marina Gil3, Anahi Ocampo4, David Poblete3, Damian Tosoni3, Francisco Javier Meza5, Guillermo Donoso3 and Oscar Melo3, (1)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Santiago, Chile, (2)Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, (3)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (4)University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (5)Centro de Cambio Global. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Groundwater Resource Vulnerability for Small Island Developing States (80455)
Shannon Holding and Diana M Allen, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

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