H52G:
Water and Society: Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World V

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Session ID#: 17314

Session Description:
Water plays a critical role in sustaining human health, food security, energy production 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, economically-efficient and socially acceptable solutions that are sustainable. 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, decision making, water governance, and sustainable development in a changing world.

Primary Convener:  Kaveh Madani, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Matteo Giuliani, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States and Alvar Escriva-Bou, Public Policy Institute of California, Water Policy Center, San Francisco, CA, United States
Chairs:  Matteo Giuliani, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, Jay R Lund, Center of Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain and Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES), Chapel Hill, NC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alvar Escriva-Bou, Public Policy Institute of California, Water Policy Center, San Francisco, CA, United States

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

1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Policy Tree Optimization for Adaptive Management of Water Resources Systems (160944)
Jonathan D Herman, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, United States and Matteo Giuliani, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Integrating Physical Actions and Financial Instruments to Manage Environmental Financial Risk (141983)
Benjamin Foster, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Tradeoffs in Risk and Return of Financial Hedging Solutions to Mitigate Drought-Related Financial Risks for Water Utilities (149953)
Rachel Baum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES), Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Implications of Preference and Problem Formulation on the Operating Policies of Complex Multi-Reservoir Systems (126632)
Julianne Quinn1, Patrick M Reed2, Matteo Giuliani3 and Andrea Castelletti3, (1)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Untangling Risk in Water Supply Systems: What Factors Drive Long-term Adaptation? (196091)
Harrison Bray Zeff1, Laurence Lin2, Lawrence E Band2, Patrick M Reed3 and Gregory W Characklis4, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for the Environment, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (3)Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES), Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Near-optimal alternative generation using modified hit-and-run sampling for non-linear, non-convex problems (194423)
David E Rosenberg, Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, United States and Ayman Alafifi, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
Assessing the Total Economic Value of Improving Water Quality to Inform Water Resources Management: Evidence and Challenges from Southeast Asia (155339)
Shokhrukh Jalilov, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan and Kensuke Fukushi, University of Tokyo, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), Tokyo, Japan
The Effects of Water Markets: Evidence from the Rio Grande. (181597)
Peter Debaere and Tianshu Li, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

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