H148
Water, climate and adaptive management in semi-arid transboundary watersheds

Session ID#: 80432

Session Description:
Ensuring water security entails managing and delivering water resources services sustainably, efficiently, and equitably. The UNISDR Global Assessment Reports, Sustainable Development Goals, IPCC, and the US National Climate Assessment, show that adaptation within semi-arid transboundary basins, encompassing both international and within-country (states and provinces) watersheds, pose particular challenges, requiring scientific and policy cooperation on robust, flexible, and acceptable measures, for responding to thresholds, rapid rates of change, and scarcity. This session will highlight innovative approaches, case studies, and best practices for reducing fragility, addressing scientific, capacity, infrastructure, and  decision-making concerns, in semi-arid transboundary watersheds. Papers will focus on:

  • Improving knowledge about extremes, including compound or cascading events across scales
  • Monitoring, forecasting and mapping environmental, social, and economic risks and benefits
  • Integrated frameworks, tools and indicators addressing the water-energy-food nexus
  • Combining risk and resilience-based approaches for managing complexity
  • Mechanisms supporting improved collaboration, alignment and foresight through science diplomacy and adaptive management
Co-Organized:
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
4327 Resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Primary Convener:  Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Rodrigo Jorge Fonseca de Oliveira Maia, University of Porto - Faculty of Engineering, Porto, Portugal, Anil Mishra, UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP), Division of Water Sciences, Paris, France and William S Logan IV, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alexandria, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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