U017
Transboundary water for Peace, Development, and Security
Session ID#: 161635
Session Description:
Transboundary river basins around the world are typically characterized by conflict of interests between riparian states and between economic and sectorial water demands, increasing infrastructure development and climate change risks, and a lingering diplomatic situation in search for cooperative solutions. Examples include the long-lasting contentions in the Nile, Euphrates-Tigris, Jordan river basins. This session welcomes presentations that contribute to a better understanding of the nature of transboundary water challenges, and the various dimensions of possible approaches towards regional cooperation in the water field and beyond. Presentations on successful water sharing management systems will be particularly welcomed. Given the multidisciplinary nature of the project, proposals are expected to cover topics such politics, law, hydrology, economics, agriculture, energy and environment. Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) What is the role of political and governance factors on basin-wide cooperation? (2) In what ways could countries cooperate to attain the UN Sustainable Development Goals for poverty reduction, food/energy/water security, and environmental protection? (3) To what extent are advances in data, models and decision support tools used in transboundary projects planning, design and operation? (4) What are possible solutions (technological, management, and policy) to address water management challenges?
Index Terms:
1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1884 Water supply [HYDROLOGY]
1918 Decision analysis [INFORMATICS]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener: Mekonnen Gebremichael, University of California Los Angeles, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Convener: Ana Elisa Cascao, Independent Consultant, Lisbon, Portugal
Assessment of Accessible Water Resources to Enhance Food Security in the Transboundary Congo River Basin (1166198)
Noel R Aloysius, University of Missouri, Biomedical, Biological, and Chemical Engineering, Columbia, United States, Umanda Abeysinghe, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, United States, Alhassan Sahad, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, United States, Veronica Fritz, University of Missouri Columbia, College of Engineering, Columbia, MO, United States and Moussa Theodore Theodore Yatta, University of Missouri Columbia, School of Natural Resources, Columbia, United States
Has storage capacity improved the intra– and interannual Lake water variability? A case study of Lake Victoria, East Africa (1117957)
Emad Hasan1, Mark E Tamisiea2, Himanshu Save3 and Srinivas V Bettadpur3, (1)Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Future Transboundary Water Conflicts in the Middle East (1083102)
Amin K Dezfuli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Saman Razavi, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, United States
The Risks and Rewards of a Blue Nile Cascade (1085833)
Jim W Hall, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, Anna Murgatroyd, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Dr. Kevin Wheeler, University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom and Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
The role dams could play in modulating the impacts of climate change in shared river systems: insights from the Tigris Euphrates watershed (1074177)
Karem Abdelmohsen1, Mohamed Sultan1, Himanshu Save2, Abotalib Z. A Farag3 and K.H. Zahran4, (1)Western Michigan University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, United States, (2)Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, (3)Western Michigan Univiversity, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, United States, (4)National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Egypt
