H44F:
Hydrology, Society, and Environmental Change: Coupled Human-Water Dynamics Across Scales II

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Session ID#: 25338

Session Description:
This session welcomes abstracts that consider how to observe, understand, model, and manage the effects of human and environmental changes on hydrological systems. The interactions of coupled human-water processes across multiple time and spatial scales can give rise to the emergence of complex dynamics, including critical transitions, and will pose major challenges for sustainable water management. This session is organised as part of the IAHS Panta Rhei hydrological decade 2013-2022 and is a part of the AGU-JpGU joint sessions on socio-hydrology. Examples of relevant areas include:

  • Hydrologic models that include anthropogenic effects
  • Global hydrologic modeling of water resources, hazards or hydrologic changes
  • Measurements of human impacts on hydrological processes
  • Interactions of communities with local water resources
  • Creation of databases describing hydrology in human-impacted systems
  • Analysis of hydrological systems around the globe and especially in developing and emerging countries
  • Human interactions with hydrological extremes (floods and droughts) and water scarcity
Primary Convener:  Hilary K McMillan, San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, CA, United States
Conveners:  Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), Uppsala, Sweden and Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Chairs:  Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), Uppsala, Sweden, Hilary K McMillan, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand and Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), Uppsala, Sweden

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Integrating the social sciences to understand human-water dynamics (Invited) (271831)
Gemma Carr and Linda Kuil Jr., Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Water stress, water salience, and the implications for water supply planning (Invited) (229920)
Margaret Ellen Garcia, Arizona State University, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Tempe, AZ, United States and Shafiqul Islam, Tufts Univ Civil & Environ Eng, Medford, MA, United States
Interventions and Interactions: Understanding Coupled Human-Water Dynamics for Improved Water Resources Management in the Himalayas (258094)
Arica Crootof, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Towards generalizing co-evolutionary dynamics of socio-hydrology: Theoretical frameworks of cultural evolution and robustness-fragility tradeoff (266281)
Woi Sok Oh, University of Florida, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, United States, David J. Yu, Purdue University, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, United States, Taylor Davis, Purdue University, Department of Philosophy, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Vicken Hillis, Boise State University, Human-Environment Systems, Boise, ID, United States and Timothy M. Waring, University of Maine, Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and School of Economics, Orono, ME, United States
Water, climate change and society in Bangladesh (291928)
Insa Thiele-Eich, University of Bonn, Meteorological Institute, Bonn, Germany and Clemens Simmer, Meteorological Institute, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany
Understanding complexities in coupled dynamics of human-water and food security (258235)
Moiz Usmani1, Ashish Kondal2, LianShin Lin2, Rita R Colwell3 and Dr. Antarpreet Singh Jutla, PhD4, (1)University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States, (2)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, College Park, United States, (4)University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Pollutant Transport and Fate: Relations Between Flow-paths and Downstream Impacts of Human Activities (220883)
Josefin Thorslund1, Jerker Jarsjo1 and Georgia Destouni2, (1)Stockholm University, Physical Geography & Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm, Sweden
Hydrologic connections between environmental and societal change at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah (282985)
Brenda B. Bowen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Ciaran J Harman, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States, Evan L Kipnis, University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Tianqui Liu, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, Jeremiah A. Bernau, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and John Horel, University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Sociohydrology: Where are we five years later? (295322)
Sydney Weyand, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX, United States, Inci Guneralp, Texas A & M University, College Station, United States and Burak Guneralp, Texas A & M University, Geography, College Station, United States

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