H42F:
Water and Society: Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World I (Half Session)

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Session ID#: 17319

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, Alvar Escriva-Bou, Public Policy Institute of California, Water Policy Center, San Francisco, CA, United States, Kaveh Madani, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom and Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, 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:

Toward A Science of Sustainable Water Management (196325)
Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
Panta Rhei: Global Perspectives on Hydrology, Society and Change (135096)
Hilary K McMillan, San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, CA, United States, Anne Van Loon, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, Alfonso Mejia, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, United States and Junguo Liu, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, China
Why do Economic Instruments Fail? The role of Water trading and Pricing at a River Basin Scale (172364)
Carlos Dionisio Pérez-Blanco1, Carlos Gomez2, Adam James Loch3 and David Adamson3, (1)Euro Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Sassari, Italy, (2)University of Alcalá, Economics, Madrid, Spain, (3)University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
On Complex Water Conflicts: Role of Enabling Conditions for Pragmatic Resolution (177481)
Shafiqul Islam, Tufts Univ Civil & Environ Eng, Medford, MA, United States and Enamul Choudhury, Wright State University, Department of Urban Affiars, Dayton, OH, United States

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