H13F:
Water and Society: Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World I


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Session ID#: 62509

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:  Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States and Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, 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:

What is controlling our control rules? Time-varying sensitivity analysis reveals the importance of adaptive and coordinated information use for multi-reservoir operations (366036)
Julianne Quinn1, Patrick M Reed2, Matteo Giuliani3 and Andrea Castelletti3, (1)University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy
Testing threshold-based identification of future water supply vulnerabilities in the western United States (399882)
Bethany Robinson, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Jonathan D Herman, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States
Co-evolutionary Perspective of Water Management in a Changing World (Invited) (387098)
Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, United States
When Tradeoffs Are Not What They Appear and Robustness May Not Exist: The Fisheries Challenge (415128)
Dr. Antonia Hadjimichael, The Pennsylvania State University, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Julianne Quinn, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States
Negotiating coordination within transboundary rivers: The Nile and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (431579)
Kevin Guy Wheeler1, Jim W Hall1, Gamal Abdo2, Simon J Dadson3, Joseph R Kasprzyk4, Rebecca Smith5 and Edith A Zagona4, (1)University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Khartoum, Water Research Center, Khartoum, Sudan, (3)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Optimizing adaptive plans under uncertainty with stakeholders in the UK and Africa (464300)
Julien J Harou, The University of Manchester, Department of Civil Engineering and Management, Manchester, United Kingdom, Robel Tilaye Geressu, University College London, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, London, United Kingdom, Tohid Erfani, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Kevis Pachos, University college London, London, United Kingdom and James Tomlinson, University of Manchester, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Manchester, United Kingdom
A Scientific Basis for Water Management: Toward a shared analytical framework (411601)
Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States, Chinedum Eluwa, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States and Sarah Freeman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States; University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States

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