GC44A:
Global and Regional Water-Food-Energy Security Under Changing Environments I

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Session ID#: 32481

Session Description:
Sustainable management of water resources is an overwhelming task, when faced with a growing population that is increasing its demand for food, energy and water. Ever-increasing demand worsens water scarcity, casting significant doubt on sustainability of food and energy production. Increasing dependence on non-renewable groundwater abstraction has been reported over intensely irrigated regions. Increasing socio-economic development and anticipated climate change will put further pressure on water, as well as agricultural and energy sectors. This session focuses on global and regional assessments of water-food-energy security. We invite submissions on: (i) development of new modeling frameworks identifying hotspots in water-food-energy security, (ii) observations identifying human and climate impacts on water, food or electricity production, and (iii) model- and data-based evaluations of sustainable adaptation strategies by integrating climate, hydrological, biological and social processes at global and regional scales in the face of a growing population and the full spectrum of climate change effects.
Primary Convener:  Yoshihide Wada, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Conveners:  Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Michelle T.H. van Vliet, Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands and Xiaogang He, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Chairs:  Xiaogang He, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
OSPA Liaison:  Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0495 Water/energy interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

How water is different from energy and food? (Invited) (206063)
Taikan Oki, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Shinjiro Yano, Suntory, Osaka, Japan and Naota Hanasaki, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Center for Global Environmental Research, Tsukuba, Japan
Impacts of historic and projected land-cover, land-use, and land-management change on carbon and water fluxes: The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) (Invited) (261027)
David M Lawrence1, Danica L. Lombardozzi2, Peter Lawrence1 and George C Hurtt3, (1)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Hydro-economic modeling of integrated solutions for the water-energy-land nexus in Africa (275056)
Simon Parkinson1, Mohamed Kahil1, Yoshihide Wada1, Volker Krey2, Edward Byers1, Nils Anders Johnson1, Peter Burek3, Yusuke Satoh1, Barbara Willaarts1, Simon Langan1 and Keywan Riahi1, (1)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, (2)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Energy, Climate, and Environment, Laxenburg, Austria, (3)International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Global River Water Temperature Modelling at Hyper-Resolution (231882)
Niko Wanders1,2, Michelle T.H. van Vliet2, Yoshihide Wada3,4 and Ludovicus P Van Beek2, (1)Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, (4)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

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