H54F:
Water and Society: Insights from Hydroeconomic Models for Managing Supply, Quality, and Coordination in Water Resource Systems under Climate Extremes and Uncertainty III

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Session ID#: 17327

Session Description:
Arid and semi-arid environments cover at least a third of the Earth’s land surface and often host high-population, highly productive agricultural regions. These water demands alter the resilience ecosystems to cope with extreme events like droughts and floods, which might become more frequent under climate change. This session provides a forum to discuss recent advances in water resources planning and management in arid and semi-arid regions. Modeling and analytical tools including system constrained optimization hydroeconomics, agent-based, and econometric models are considered. Water resources planning investigations  from around the world will highlight formulation, development and application of a wide range of tools, integrating supply and demand management options (e.g. economic instruments such as water pricing, water markets, and institutional innovations) to improve the sustainability of long-term water management, balancing ecosystem resilience with urban and agricultural water. Systems analysis is helpful for improving and organizing technical and policy discussions in water-stressed regions.
Primary Convener:  Josue Medellin-Azuara, University of California, Merced, Water Systems Management Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, United States
Conveners:  Guilherme Marques, Institute of Hydraulic Research UFGRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States and Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), Valencia, Spain
Chairs:  Guilherme Marques, Institute of Hydraulic Research UFGRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), Valencia, Spain, Julien J Harou, The University of Manchester, Department of Civil Engineering and Management, Manchester, United Kingdom and Amaury Tilmant, Laval University, Civil and Water Engineering, Quebec City, QC, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), Valencia, Spain

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
1884 Water supply [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Science-Based, Community-Driven Approach to Reducing Glacier Lake Outburst Flood Risks in the Nepal Himalaya (Invited) (125276)
Daene C. McKinney, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Research in Water Resources, Austin, TX, United States, Alton Clair Byers, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Milan K. Shrestha, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Amanda D. Cuellar, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Sonam Futi Sherpa, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal
A Spatial Decision Support System to incorporate hydro-economic modeling results in the management of water resources under decentralized institutional arrangements in a semiarid reservoir region in Brazil (192604)
Marcia Guedes Alcoforado Alcoforado de Moraes, UFPE Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, Gerald Souza da Silva, UFPB Federal University of Paraiba, João Pessoa, Brazil and Marianna Siegmund-Schultze, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Bottom-up perspectives of extreme event and climate change threats to water quality: Drinking water utilities in California (167243)
Julia Ekstrom1, Meghan R. Klasic2, Amanda Fencl1, Mark Lubell1, Louise Wells Bedsworth3 and Ezekiel Baker4, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Geography, Davis, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Sociology, Davis, CA, United States
Concerns about irrigation efficiency as an adaptation measure to cope with droughts and climate change in semi-arid basins (Invited) (174233)
Sebastian Vicuna1,2, Lenin Henriquez1 and Oscar Melo3, (1)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Escuela de Ingenieria, Santiago, Chile, (2)Centro de Cambio Global. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, (3)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Hydroeconomic DSS for optimal hydrology-oriented forest management in semiarid areas  (146505)
Alberto Garcia-Prats1, Antonio del Campo2 and Manuel Pulido-Velazquez2, (1)Universitat Politècnica de València, Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), Valencia, Spain, (2)Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
Quantifying Third-Party Impacts and Environmental Externalities from a Cap-And-Trade System for Groundwater Management (126741)
Hassaan Furqan Khan, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, Yi-Chen Ethan Yang, Lehigh University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bethlehem, PA, United States and Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States
Producing regionally-relevant multiobjective tradeoffs to engage with Colorado water managers (189073)
Rebecca Smith, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, Leon Basdekas, Black and Veatch Corporation Overland Park, Overland Park, KS, United States and Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado at Boulder, Western Water Assessment RISA, Boulder, CO, United States

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