H144
Water and Society: Communication, Decision Support and Stakeholder Engagement to improve Policy and Management in an Uncertain World.

Session ID#: 78608

Session Description:
Governance is fundamental for the optimization of water management, whether it is about minimizing the impact of extremes or maximizing the benefits from water use. For improving governance, ensuring that science is credible, salient and legitimate, is essential in integrating science into policy and management. Depending on the context, integration of science takes a variety of forms, using a wide variety of communication methods. Key approaches relate to decision support, stakeholder engagement, co-creation, and the idea of bridging research and policy-making communities. This session seeks any contribution that aims to report on or advance the state of understanding on these topics. Contributions are also specifically invited regarding how uncertainty is discussed, managed and communicated as part of this integration process. The session is co-sponsored by the Water and Society and Hydrologic Uncertainty Technical Committees.
Index Terms:

1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Alvar Escriva-Bou, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
Conveners:  Joseph H.A. Guillaume, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Adam James Loch, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia and Ted Veldkamp, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Alvar Escriva-Bou, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
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Christopher k Shuler, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Geology and Geophysics, Honolulu, HI, United States, Matamua Katrina E. Mariner, American Samoa Power Authority, Water, Pago Pago, American Samoa and Aly I El-Kadi, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
Co-design of a Water Cycle Diagram to Discover Similarities and Differences among Global Water Impact Models (498407)
Camelia Eliza Telteu1, Hannes Mueller Schmied2, Simon Gosling3, Wim Thiery4, Yadu N Pokhrel5, Manolis Grillakis6, Aristeidis Koutroulis6, Yoshihide Wada7, Yusuke Satoh8, Julien Boulange8, Lauren Paige Seaby9, Tobias Stacke10, Xingcai Liu11, Fulu Tao12, Ran Zhai12, Agnes Ducharne13, Guoyong Leng14, Peter Burek7, Niko Wanders15, Tim Trautmann1, Vimal Mishra16, Jacob Schewe9, Fang Zhao17, Inga Menke18, Anatolii Shmurak19, Aimé Koudou20 and Atiq Kainan Ahmed21, (1)Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute of Physical Geography, Frankfurt, Germany, (2)Goethe University Frankfurt, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Institute of Physical Geography, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, (3)University of Nottingham, School of Geography, Nottingham, United Kingdom, (4)Vrije University Brussel, Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Brussels, Belgium, (5)Michigan State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States, (6)Technical University of Crete, School of Environmental Engineering, Chania, Greece, (7)International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, (8)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, (9)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (10)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (11)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Beijing, China, (12)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Beijing, China, (13)Sorbonne University, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, Environment, transfers and interactions in soils and water bodies, Paris, France, (14)University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, (15)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (16)Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India, (17)East China Normal University, School of Geographic Sciences, Shanghai, China, (18)Climate Analytics, Berlin, Germany, (19)Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine, (20)Jean Lorougnon Guédé University of Daloa, Department of Earth Sciences, Training and Research Unit Environment, Daloa, Côte D'ivoire, (21)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand
 
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David E Gorelick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, David Gold, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States and Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
 
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Jessica Rudnick, University of California Davis, Davis, United States and Mark Lubell, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
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Joseph R Kasprzyk1, Rebecca Smith2, William James Raseman2, Joshuah Jacobson2 and Balaji Rajagopalan3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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Jinyu Gao, Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China and Jianshi Zhao, Hydology & Water Resources, Beijing, China
 
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David G Groves, RAND Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States, Edmundo Molina-Perez, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Monterrey, Mexico and Steven W Popper, RAND Corporation Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, United States
 
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Theodore Chao Lim, Virginia Tech, Urban Affairs and Planning, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
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Susanne Scheierling, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
 
Assessing Groundwater Contamination Risk for Water Supply in California’s Low-Income Communities (522384)
Erik Porse, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States and Khalil Lezzaik, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, United States
 
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Joseph H.A. Guillaume, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Thorsten Arnold, Grey Bruce Centre for Agroecology, Allenford, ON, Canada, Rutger W Vervoort, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Sydney, Australia, Tuomas Lahtinen, Aalto University, Systems Analysis Laboratory, Aalto, Finland and Anthony John Jakeman, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
 
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Takahiro Endo, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan
 
A Microeconomic Multi-model Ensemble Experiment to Sample Uncertainty, Explore Tipping Points and Assess Socio-economic Effects of Agricultural Water Pricing Reform in the Piedmont Region, Italy. (538274)
Francesco Sapino1, Carlos Gutierrez2, carlos Dionisio perez Blanco1 and Vito Frontuto3, (1)University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (2)University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, (3)University of Turin, Turin, Italy
 
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Julia Reis, Roanoke, VA, United States and Julie Elizabeth Shortridge, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
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Julia Hatcher, Janette Anderson, Jody McKenna and Jocelyn Sherwood, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, Canada
 
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Thomas W Giambelluca1,2, Abby G Frazier3, Oliver Elison Timm4, H. Annamalai5, Victoria W Keener3, Laura Brewington3 and Kristen Sanfilippo6, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)State University of New York at Albany, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, (5)University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, International Pacific Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, (6)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Geography and Environment, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
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David Adamson and Adam James Loch, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
 
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Jose Bolorinos1, Newsha Ajami2,3 and Ram Rajagopal1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)ReNUWIt ERC, Stanford, CA, United States
 
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Orn-uma Polpanich1,2, Manish Shrestha3, Karthikeyan Matheswaran2, Dhyey Bhatpuria4, Duong Du Bui5, Sinh Truong Do6 and Manish Shreshtha, (1)Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, (2)Stockholm Environment Institute, Asia Centre, Bangkok, Thailand, (3)Stockholm Environment Institute, Asia Centre, Water Resources Cluster, Bangkok, Thailand, (4)Stockholm Environment Institute, Asia Centre, Davis, CA, United States, (5)National Center for Water Resources Planning and Investigation, Hanoi, Vietnam, (6)Nation Center for Water Resources Planning and Investigation, Water Resources Planning, Hanoi, Vietnam
 
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Barbara Hofmann, George Woolhouse, Nigel Walmsley and Gina Tsarouchi, HR Wallingford, Wallingford, United Kingdom
 
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Nisha Singh1, Ashish B Joshi2 and Suman Kumari Ramapati2, (1)Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, India, (2)Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, school of liberal studies, Gandhinagar, India
 
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Sarah E Null, Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States, Marcelo A Olivares, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile and Jay R Lund, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
The Dynamics of Water Supplies, Land Use, and Disadvantaged Communities in the Tulare Lake Basin, California (596236)
Rebecca L Teasley, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States, Helen E Dahlke, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Jonathan D Herman, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States, Clare Gupta, University of California Davis, Cooperative Extension Unit Community & Regional Development, Davis, CA, United States and M. Anne Visser, University of California Davis, Community & Regional Development, Davis, CA, United States
 
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Dong Kwan Park1, Baptiste Francois1, Sungwook Wi1, Alexis Dufour2, David E Rheinheimer1, Alexandra Bruce1, Khanh Nguyen1 and Casey Brown1, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
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Susan Bresney1, Laura Forni1, Annette Huber-Lee2, Manish Shrestha3 and Thanapon Piman3, (1)Stockholm Environment Institute, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Stockholm Environment Institute, Somerville, MA, United States, (3)Stockholm Environment Institute, Asia Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
 
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Matthew C. H. Vaughan, Lake Champlain Basin Program, Grand Isle, VT, United States
 
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Courtney R Hammond Wagner1, Xiaogang He2 and Tara Moran1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
 
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Timothy M Lutz and Robert Cote, West Chester University, Earth and Space Sciences, West Chester, PA, United States
 
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Bardia Heidari Haratmeh, Southern Methodist University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dallas, TX, United States; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Lorne N Leonard, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Arthur Schmidt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Lawrence E Band, University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Barbara E Minsker, Univ Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
 
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Josue Medellin-Azuara, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Jesse Jankowski, Center for Watershed Sciences, Davis, CA, United States and Jay R Lund, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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