H32F:
Water Resources, Climate Change, and Sustainability: Breakthroughs in Process Understanding, Data Availability, and Impact Assessment II


Session ID#: 10557

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, University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Concordia University, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 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:  Robert Wilby, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, United Kingdom and Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Robert Wilby, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, United Kingdom

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:

Revealing Risks in Adaptation Planning: expanding Uncertainty Treatment and dealing with Large Projection Ensembles during Planning Scenario development (75619)
Levi D Brekke1, Martyn P Clark2, Ethan D Gutmann3, Andrew W Wood4, Naoki Mizukami3, Pablo A. Mendoza4, Roy Rasmussen5, Kyoko Ikeda6, Tom Pruitt7, Jeffrey Richard Arnold8 and Balaji Rajagopalan9, (1)Bureau of Reclamation, Research and Development, Denver, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (3)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)National Center for Atmospheric Research, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, United States, (8)US Army Corps of Engineers, Climate Preparedness and Resilience Programs, Jacksonville, FL, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Identifying climate change vulnerabilities from the bottom up (81564)
Julie A Vano, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Stochastic Assessment of Water Resource System Vulnerability to Multi-year Drought (Invited) (61316)
Jim W Hall1, Edoardo Borgomeo2, Chris Farmer3, Georg Pflug4 and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler4, (1)University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)World Bank, Washington, United States, (3)University of Oxford, Mathematics Insititute, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Vulnerability Assessment of Water Supply Systems: Status, Gaps and Opportunities (Invited) (60448)
Howard S. Wheater, Centre for Hydrology and Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Identifying and Addressing Infrastructure Vulnerabilities Under Climate Change in Data-Scarce Regions: the Role of Conservation (67452)
Julie Elizabeth Shortridge, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Seth Guikema, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
A Spatial Extrapolation Approach to Assess the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resource Systems (62891)
Jasson Pina1, Amaury Tilmant2 and Francois Anctil1, (1)Laval University, Civil and Water Engineering, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Impacts of Climate Change and of Anthropisation on Water Resources: from the Risk Assessment to Adaptation, the Case of the Seine Basin (including Paris, France) (66173)
Florence Habets1,2, Pascal Viennot3, Charlotte Thierion4, Jean-Pierre Vergnes2, Ahmed Ait Kaci5 and Yvan Caballero6, (1)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (2)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France, (3)Mines ParisTech, Geosciences Center, Fontainebleau, France, (4)Antea Group, Olivet, France, (5)BIPE, Issy les Moulineaux, France, (6)BRGM, Orléans, France

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