H083
Water & Society: Dynamics and sustainability of multiscalar human-water systems
Session ID#: 74357
Session Description:
Communities around the world are experiencing worsening water availability and quality issues, often in spite of well-conceived local interventions. While the societal impacts of these water problems are most pronounced at the local level, drivers stretch across multiple spatial and temporal scales, making effective management of these human-water systems challenging. For instance, national subsidies for water-intensive crops and electricity can incentivize local groundwater depletion, with global consumers ultimately benefiting from the overexploitation of this water resource. Nutrient runoff and landcover changes in distant connected watersheds have lead to water quality and flooding issues in downstream communities. These examples are a sample of the multiscalar human-water challenges we aim to explore in this session. We welcome novel contributions providing new understanding of human-water systems operating across multiple spatial and temporal scales, and research offering solutions for sustainable water resources management in a telecoupled world.
Index Terms:
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Landon Marston, Kansas State University, Civil Engineering, Manhattan, KS, United States
Convener: Kyle Frankel Davis, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison: Landon Marston, Kansas State University, Civil Engineering, Manhattan, KS, United States
Aligning the multiple goals of food production, environmental flow provision, and nutrition in US watersheds (487470)
Kyle Frankel Davis, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Landon Marston, Kansas State University, Civil Engineering, Manhattan, KS, United States and Richard Rushforth, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Examining Human-Water Dynamics via coupling Water Footprint and Dynamic Decomposition Analysis (515893)
Zhongwen Yang1, Bin Li2, Xinyi Xu2 and Tiantian Yang3, (1)CRAES Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (3)The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
Interdependencies and Telecoupling of Oil Palm Expansion at the Expense ofIndonesian Rainforest (Invited) (516269)
Maria Cristina Rulli, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milano, Italy, Stefano Casirati, University of California Merced, School of Engineering and Environmental System Program, Merced, CA, United States, Jampel Dell'Angelo, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD, United States, Kyle Frankel Davis, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States and Paolo D'Odorico, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Characterization of temporal and cross-sectional variability in water consumption based on monthly withdrawal and discharge data (541625)
Julie Elizabeth Shortridge1, Morgan McCarthy2, Connor O'Beirne Brogan3, Joseph Kleiner4, Robert Burgholzer4 and Durelle Scott1, (1)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (4)Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Richmond, VA, United States
Loss of environmental flows induced by virtual water trade (564946)
Paolo D'Odorico, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Lorenzo Rosa, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milano, Italy, Chengyi Tu, Yunnan University, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Kunming, China and Maria Cristina Rulli, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milano, Italy
Examining social inequalities in water resources planning: A case study of a rural community of Cochabamba, Bolivia (588784)
Laura Forni1, Lina Gabriela Terrazas2 and Marisa Escobar1, (1)Stockholm Environment Institute, Davis, CA, United States, (2)San Simon University, Civil Engineering, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Groundwater depletion embedded in domestic transfers and international exports of the United States (614802)
Paul Joseph Ruess1, Sajani Gumidyala2, Megan Konar2, Landon Marston2, Carole Dalin3 and Yoshihide Wada4, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, (4)International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
