H31O:
Water and Society: Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World I

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Session ID#: 34223

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:

How Confident can we be in Flood Risk Assessments? (250796)
Bruno Merz, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Stochastic Watershed Models for Risk Based Decision Making (214539)
Richard M Vogel, Tufts University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, MA, United States
Exploring How Changing Monsoonal Dynamics and Human Pressures Challenge Multi-Reservoir Management of Food-Energy-Water Tradeoffs (228953)
Julianne Quinn, University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, Matteo Giuliani, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, Andrea Castelletti, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy, Jared Oyler, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Robert Nicholas, Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States
Social Diffusion of Water Conservation: A Study of Residential Turf Rebate Programs in Orange County, California (216050)
Kimberly Duong, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Stanley Baugh Grant, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States, Megan Rippy, Virginia Tech, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Manassas, VA, United States and David Lewis Feldman, University of California Irvine, Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Irvine, CA, United States
STRESS TESTING WATER RESOURCE SYSTEMS AT REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SCALES WITH SYNTHETIC DROUGHT EVENT SETS (260899)
Jim W Hall, University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, Mohammad Mortazavi-Naeini, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Gemma Coxon, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Benoit P Guillod, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Myles Robert Allen, University of Oxford, Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
A data-driven emulation framework for representing water-food nexus in a changing cold region (255742)
Ali Nazemi1, Shahin Zandmoghaddam2 and Shadi Hatami1, (1)Concordia University, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Concordia University, Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
Dynamics and resilience in interdependent systems at the energy-water-land nexus (Invited) (243674)
Richard H Moss, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States

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