HS5.1.1 | Water resources policy and management – System solutions for uncertain futures
Water resources policy and management – System solutions for uncertain futures
Convener: Jazmin Zatarain SalazarECSECS | Co-conveners: David Gold, Marta Zaniolo, Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, Julien Harou

While water plays a critical role in sustaining human health, food security, energy production, and ecosystem services, factors such as population growth, climate, and land use change increasingly threaten water quality and quantity. The complexity of water resources systems requires methods integrating technical, economic, environmental, legal, and social issues within frameworks that help design and test efficient and sustainable water management strategies to meet the water challenges of the 21st century. System analyses adopt practical, problem-oriented approaches for addressing the most challenging water issues of our times. These include competing objectives for water, multi-stakeholder planning and negotiation processes, multisector linkages, and dynamic adaptation under uncertainty. The session will feature state-of-the-art contributions to water and multisector resource system management solutions under uncertainty.

While water plays a critical role in sustaining human health, food security, energy production, and ecosystem services, factors such as population growth, climate, and land use change increasingly threaten water quality and quantity. The complexity of water resources systems requires methods integrating technical, economic, environmental, legal, and social issues within frameworks that help design and test efficient and sustainable water management strategies to meet the water challenges of the 21st century. System analyses adopt practical, problem-oriented approaches for addressing the most challenging water issues of our times. These include competing objectives for water, multi-stakeholder planning and negotiation processes, multisector linkages, and dynamic adaptation under uncertainty. The session will feature state-of-the-art contributions to water and multisector resource system management solutions under uncertainty.