Exploring The Resilience Of Food-Energy-Water Nexus Infrastructures Through An Alliance Of Scientists And Stakeholders
Exploring The Resilience Of Food-Energy-Water Nexus Infrastructures Through An Alliance Of Scientists And Stakeholders
Session ID#: 124675
Session Description:
Owing to the highly interwoven nature of food-energy-water systems (FEWS), climate change and extreme weather will continue to challenge the capacity of these sectors to support human well-being and maintain critical environmental services. The resilience of FEWS to such climate and environmental stresses will serve as a major force shaping future decisions on the economy, national and international security for many decades to come. These issues are a quintessential interdisciplinary research challenge and will require a well-structured science agenda coupled with stakeholder engagement. The session calls for presentations from experts in climate dynamics, biogeochemistry, hydrology, water resource systems, agriculture, policy formulation, stakeholder engagement, and economics. The session will include stakeholder participation from a set of application domains including environmental management, regional land planning, farm crop and soil management, the energy production sector, and public utilities, all of which face increasingly complex strategic decisions in light of the growing climate challenge.
Index Terms:
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Swarnali Sanyal, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners: Charles J. Vörösmarty, CUNY City College of New York, Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Seth Tuler, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division, Worcester, MA, United States, Swarnali Sanyal, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States and Nicolas Maxfield, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison: Charles J. Vörösmarty, CUNY City College of New York, Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States
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