Subdivision on Water policy, management and control
Chair: Andrea Cominola
Water is key to sustain human health and secure food, energy production, and ecosystem services. Climate and land use change together with growing populations are straining freshwater availability worldwide. Successful water resources management and policy requires an integrative understanding of coupled human and natural system components, and proper characterisation of the multiple and heterogenous sources of uncertainty affecting their (co-)evolution in time. This improved knowledge can be used to build mathematical models and support decision makers in delivering scientifically sound, economically-efficient and socially acceptable policy.
The Water Policy, Management and Control subdivision provides a forum for discussing the most recent advances in water resources systems analysis, planning and management to inform public policy, water resource allocation, innovative water demand management strategies, conflict resolution, decision making, water governance, and sustainable development in a changing world.
Topics covered include
- Integrated Water Resources Management
- Sustainable water infrastructure planning and management
- Economic and financial tools to support water management and policy
- Multiobjective and multistakeholders approaches
- Robust decision making under deep uncertainty
- Urban water management
- Agriculture water management
- Water quality modelling and management
- Decision support system design and demonstrations
- Water conflict analysis and resolution
- Water law and diplomacy
- Coupled human and natural systems
- Sociohydrology
- Water footprint and trade
- Stakeholder engagement and participatory approaches
- Water, energy and food nexus
- Uncertainty and risk in water systems operation and control
- Real time water infrastructure control
- Methods and tools to deal with complexity of water resources management and planning