H54F:
Water and Society: Modeling Tools, Communication Channels, and Stakeholder Engagement to Inform Public Policy II


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Session ID#: 62117

Session Description:
Although a growing body of scientists is making considerable progress in bridging the gap between science and policy, there is still an evident breach between academia and policy-making. In the sphere of water resources research, there exist many successful examples of scientists and relevant stakeholders collaborating regularly in the development of public policies. However, there are also many flagrant failures where scientific analyses were absent or were not considered in informing important policy decisions. Establishing stronger bridges between the research and policy-making communities, going beyond anecdotal cases, is essential to successfully increasing the impact of water research on policy decisions. In this session we are seeking research that responds to specific policy questions, as well as case studies where scientists have successfully engaged in the decision-making process. Contributions that provide examples of decision support systems, economic modeling approaches, innovative communication channels, and stakeholder engagement and co-development experiences are welcome.
Primary Convener:  Alvar Escriva-Bou, Public Policy Institute of California, Water Policy Center, San Francisco, CA, United States
Conveners:  Kelly Sanders, University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, Josue Medellin-Azuara, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, United States and Adam James Loch, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Alvar Escriva-Bou, Public Policy Institute of California, Water Policy Center, San Francisco, CA, United States
Chairs:  Alvar Escriva-Bou, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, United States and Kelly Sanders, University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Adam James Loch, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Cross-Listed:
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6324 Legislation and regulations [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

From Being a Celebrated Scientist to Getting Accused of Espionage: What Did I learn from Serving on the Iranian Government? (Invited) (402615)
Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Richmond Hill, Canada
Science to Action: Building a foundation to improve the utility of climate information in water management (456691)
Julie A Vano, Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt, United States, Dr. Jeffrey Richard Arnold, US Army Engineer Responses to Climate Change Program, Seattle, United States, Bart Nijssen, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, Martyn P Clark, University of Calgary, Department of Civil Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, Calgary, AB, Canada, Andrew W Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Ethan D Gutmann, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Hydrometeorological Applications Program, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Nans Addor, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Joseph Hamman, CarbonPlan, Seattle, United States and Flavio Lehner, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
A tale of two rivers: a hydro-economic model for the assessment of trading opportunities and return flow externalities in inter-basin water markets. Insights from the Tagus-Segura Water Transfer in Spain (395586)
carlos Dionisio perez Blanco, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, Carlos Gutiérrez Martín, UCO, Córdoba, Spain and Arthur Hrast Essenfelder, CMCC Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
Trends in Water Rate Structures to Encourage Conservation: Evidence from California (452358)
Maura Allaire, University of California Irvine, Urban Planning and Public Policy, Irvine, CA, United States and Eduardo Carvalho Nepomuceno Alencar, University of California Irvine, Social Ecology, Irvine, CA, United States
Meeting in the Middle: Building a Water Research Initiative that is Policy-maker Driven based on Local Input (Invited) (418202)
Ann M Bartuska1, Ellen Gilinsky2 and Casey Wichman1, (1)Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, United States, (2)National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, East Alton, United States
Using Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Interactions Framework to Guide Scenarios Analysis for Policy Development (459611)
Brian Joyce1, Karina Barquet2 and Annie Sturesson2, (1)Stockholm Environment Institute, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Fifth-stage of water reforms (424421)
Nikki Dumbrell, David Adamson and Adam James Loch, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Incorporation of Modern Web-based Workflows to Improve Researcher-Utility Collaboration in Water Resources Planning: an Example from San Francisco (458681)
David E Rheinheimer1, Don Park1, Alexis Dufour2 and Casey Brown3, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States

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