H32G:
Water and Society: Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World II

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Session ID#: 34217

Session Description:
Water plays a critical role in sustaining human health, food security 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, and socially acceptable solutions. 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, water governance, and sustainable development in a changing world.
Primary Convener:  Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Richmond Hill, Canada
Conveners:  Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
Chairs:  Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States, Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Richmond Hill, Canada and Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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

1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Connecting Systems Model Design to Decision-Maker and Stakeholder Needs: Lessons from Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan (276328)
David Johnson1,2 and Jordan R Fischbach2, (1)Purdue University, Industrial Engineering & Political Science, West Lafayette, United States, (2)RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Climate variability and demand growth as drivers of water scarcity in the Turkwel river basin: a bottom-up risk assessment of a data-sparse basin in Kenya (217832)
Feyera A Hirpa1, Ellen Dyer2, Robert Hope3 and Simon J Dadson2, (1)One Concern, Menlo Park, United States, (2)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)University of Oxford, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom
Using QMRAcatch – a stochastic hydrological water quality and infection risk model – to identify sustainable management options for long term drinking water resource planning (273859)
Julia Derx1,2, Katalin Demeter2,3, Jack F Schijven4,5, Regina Sommer2,6, Christa M. Zoufal-Hruza7, Harald Kromp8, Andreas Farnleitner2,3 and Alfred Paul Blaschke1,2, (1)Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna, Austria, (2)Interuniversity Cooperation Centre for Water and Health (ICC Water & Health), www.waterandhealth.at, Vienna, Austria, (3)Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Chemical and Biological Engineering 166/5, Research Group Environmental Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics, Vienna, Austria, (4)National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, (6)Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (7)IFUM Laboratories of Environmental Medicine, Municipal Department 39, Vienna City Administration, Vienna, Austria, (8)Vienna Water, Municipal Department 31, Vienna City Administration, Vienna, Austria
High resolution production water footprints of the United States (254878)
Landon Marston, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Civil Engineering, Blacksburg, United States; Virginia Tech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, Yufei Zoe Ao, Ph.D., ENV SP, Kansas State University, Civil Engineering, Manhattan, KS, United States; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, Mesfin Mekonnen, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, United States and Arjen Y. Hoekstra, University of Twente, Water Engineering and Management group, Enschede, Netherlands
Impact of Operating Rules on Planning Capacity Expansion of Urban Water Supply Systems (233677)
Richard de Neufville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Cambridge, MA, United States, Stefano Galelli, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Pillar of Engineering Systems and Design, Singpore, Singapore and Xin Tian, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Engineering Systems, Singapore, Singapore

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