U13A:
Cities and Geophysics: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future


Note: Abstract submissions to Union sessions are by invitation only.


Session ID#: 50007

Session Description:
Interactions between geophysical and urban systems has become a key societal question. With respect to the AGU Centennial, there are lessons from the past as well as challenges for the future. In the past, these interactions had been mainly considered as one-way, i.e. geophysical resources and risks. 

Recently, there had been a series of important, international agreements, notably the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the COP21, which deeply changed this vision, as well as large city networks (RC100, ICLEI). The main goal is to shift from a short-term mismanagement of resources and risks to a wise monitoring of the environment across wide range of space-time scales and develop holistic responses to both ongoing geophysical changes and urbanisation processes, such as increasing the city resilience to geophysical extremes, water and climate change.

Are these issues sufficiently addressed by geoscientists?  How to move forward?

OSPA Liaison:  Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Hydrologie Météorologie et Complexité (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France
Primary Convener:  Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Hydrology Meteorology and Complexity (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France
Conveners:  ML Levent Kavvas, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States and Stefano Tinti, Univ Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Hydrologie Météorologie et Complexité (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France
Chairs:  Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Hydrologie Météorologie et Complexité (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France, Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, ML Levent Kavvas, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Stefano Tinti, Univ Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Co-Organized with:
Union, Natural Hazards, Hydrology, and Nonlinear Geophysics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • H - Hydrology
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
4355 Miscellaneous [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4499 General or miscellaneous [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SCENARIO PLANNING FOR UNCERTAIN URBAN WATER FUTURES (Invited) (356574)
Patricia Gober, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States
Linking Climate Change to Impact and Adaptation Studies in Urban Areas: Modelling of Extreme Rainfall Processes Over a Wide Range of Space and Time Scales (Invited) (354897)
Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen, McGill Univ, Montreal, QC, Canada
Managing natural risks in cities - from geophysical information to decision-making (Invited) (360811)
Stephane Hallegatte, World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
Risks & Resilience: challenges and opportunities for cities (Invited) (406922)
Philippe Gourbesville, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
The Interface between Interdisciplinary Climate Science and Decision Making at the Territorial Level: Lessons from a Case Study in South-Western France. (Invited) (419863)
Hervé Le Treut, Sorbonne University, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France and Acclimaterra Project Team

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