GC24D:
How Will Transdisciplinary Water Research Help Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? I eLightning


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Session ID#: 53121

Session Description:
There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), nine of which relate to water, including improved access to water and sanitation, eradicating poverty, reducing hunger, enabling healthy ecosystems, providing clean energy, regulating climate, and sustainable consumption. Achievement of the SDGs is set for 2030, less than 12 years away, yet many key water-related interactions across sectors and scientific disciplines are poorly understood, especially in the context of rapid global environmental change. For example, what are the trade-offs and co-benefits of rainwater harvesting for health, household economics, and ecosystems? Is deforestation linked to hydrological extremes, crop failure, and poverty? Is virtual water trade sustaining or eroding landscape resilience?

We welcome contributions that discuss multifaceted human and environmental aspects of SDG-achievement from a transdisciplinary water perspective. Contributions may focus on any part of the world, and we particularly invite studies focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Oceania and Island nations, and Central Asia.

Primary Convener:  Patrick Keys, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
Convener:  Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan; Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
Primary Liaison:  Patrick Keys, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
Chairs:  Patrick Keys, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan
OSPA Liaison:  Patrick Keys, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Water and the SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa (and Beyond) (434711)
Pamela M Collins1, David M Hole2 and Robin Abell1, (1)Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States, (2)Conservation International, Moore Center for Science, Arlington, VA, United States
Examining Extreme Cities: Impossible Solutions for Water Management (Invited) (443178)
Melinda J Laituri, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Danielle Davis, Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Reshaping the Sustainable Geographical Pattern for China's Future: Concept, Modeling and Zoning (401306)
Jie Fan and Yafei WANG, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China

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