MultiSector Dynamics: Energy-Water-Land Interactions at Multiple Scales

Session ID#: 123182

Session Description:
The world's energy, water, and land (EWL) systems are in transition and are rapidly integrating, driven by forces such as socioeconomic, climatic, and technological changes, as well as policies intended to meet societal priorities such as the Sustainable Development Goals. These dynamics weave across spatial scales, connecting global markets to national, sub-national, and urban economies. At the same time, resources are often locally managed under varying administrative jurisdictions tied to the characteristics of each commodity, such as river-basins for water, grid-regions for electricity, and land-use boundaries for agriculture. Local decisions in turn are critical to the success of national-to-global policies. Thus, there is a need to better characterize EWL interactions to guide robust, consistent, trans-scale decision-making. This session invites multidisciplinary abstracts exploring EWL dynamics, hotspots, trade, policies, infrastructure planning and uncertainty characterization across variable boundaries. Studies exploring the impacts of these dynamics on security, health, and conflict are also welcome.
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]


Primary Convener:  Thomas Bernard Wild, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Zarrar Khan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, Makoto Taniguchi, RIHN Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan and Adriano Vinca, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Thomas Bernard Wild, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States