H23J:
Flexibility in the Design of Water Resources Infrastructure Posters
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Session ID#: 13915
Session Description:
The performance and design of water resources infrastructure is impacted by diverse uncertain factors, including natural precipitation variability, uncertainty in future climatic conditions and socio-economic development. The question of how to ensure these long-lived, capital intensive systems remain effective over an array of future conditions is an important one for both developed countries faced with reinvesting in ageing infrastructure as well as developing countries investing in new infrastructure. Moving away from the traditional approach of coping with uncertainty through over-dimensioning and safety factors, an emerging body of work focuses instead on how to develop physical systems that actively incorporate the ability to be adapted over time in response to new information. This session explores the role that this kind of flexibility can play in crafting water resources infrastructure that is resilient to diverse futures. Applications could include water supply infrastructure, reservoirs, flood risk reduction systems, stormwater management, hydropower and irrigation.
Primary Convener: Kim Smet, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners: Kenneth M Strzepek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for transportation and logistics, Cambridge, United States and Richard Swanson, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs: Kim Smet, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Kenneth M Strzepek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for transportation and logistics, Cambridge, United States
OSPA Liaison: Kim Smet, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, Patrick A Ray, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, United States and Sarah Freeman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
Assela Pathirana, IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education, Water Science and Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, Mohanasundar Radhakrishnan, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Water Science and Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, Chris Zevenbergen, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Flood Resilience Chair Group, Delft, Netherlands and Nguyen Hong Quan, Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh city, Institute for Environment and Resources (IER), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Rui Hui, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Jay R Lund, Center of Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Jonathan D Herman, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, United States and Kaveh Madani, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Mohanasundar Radhakrishnan1,2, Nguyen Hong Quan3, Assela Pathirana1, Berry Gersonius1,2, Richard Ashley1,2 and Chris Zevenbergen1, (1)UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Flood Resilience Chair Group, Delft, Netherlands, (2)CRC for Water Sensitive Cites, Melbourne, Australia, (3)Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh city, Institute for Environment and Resources (IER), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Guilherme Marques, Institute of Hydraulic Research UFGRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Caetano Coelho Silva Fraga, UFRGS Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande, Brazil and Josue Medellin-Azuara, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States
Jory Seth Hecht1, Paul H Kirshen2 and Richard M Vogel1, (1)Tufts University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Kim Smet, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Richard de Neufville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Cambridge, MA, United States and Maarten van der Vlist, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Amir Norouzi1, Hamideh Habibi1, Behzad Nazari1, Seongjin Noh1, Dong-Jun Seo1 and Yu Zhang2, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Brandon Preclaro Wong, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Branko Kerkez, University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Andrea Castelletti, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy and Matteo Giuliani, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, 20133, Italy
Lauren Marie Cook, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Dr. Constantine Samaras, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Jeanne VanBriesen, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Yonas Demissie1, Md Rubayet Mortuza1 and Eugene Yan2, (1)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Lemont, United States
Anthony Parolari, Duke University, Durham, United States and Mark S Bartlett Jr, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Yuntao Ye, Shang Yizi Sr., Lili Liang, Xuefeng Sang and Jiaqi Zhai, China Institute of Water Resrouces and Hydropower Research, Beijing, China
