2008 Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts Online Program

Paper Session: 4347 Water and sustainability in urban environments II is scheduled on Friday, 4/18/08, from 12:20 PM - 2:00 PM in Empire Room #6, Westin, 7th Floor Sponsorship(s): Water Resources Specialty Group Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group Urban Geography Specialty Group Organizer(s): Heejun Chang - Portland State University Kelli L. Larson - Arizona State University Chair(s): Kelli L. Larson - Arizona State University Abstract(s):   12:20 PM   Author(s): *Patricia Gober - Arizona State University  Abstract Title: Integrating Modeling for Water Resource Planning in Phoenix 12:40 PM   Author(s): *Bob Bolin - Arizona State University Mohan Seetharam - Decision Center for a Desert City, Arizona State University Patricia Gober - Arizona State University Brian Pompeii - Arizona State University  Abstract Title: Water Resources, Climate Change and Institutional Vulnerability: A Case Study of Phoenix, Arizona 1:00 PM   Author(s): *Lilah Zautner - Arizona State University  Abstract Title: Water Vulnerability on the Urban Periphery: The Case of Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. 1:20 PM   Author(s): *Kelli L. Larson - Arizona State University  Abstract Title: Sustaining Water Resources, or Maintaining the Status Quo? 1:40 PM   Discussant: Dave White - Arizona State University   Discussant(s): Dave White - Arizona State University Session Description: The sustainability of freshwater is becoming increasingly complex in many urban areas. Ongoing land use and land cover change associated with population growth has resulted in increasing residential water demand, changes in watershed hydrology, and deterioration of in-stream water quality. Integrated water management and best management practices have been introduced to mitigate some of the challenging problems in metropolitan regions.  Solving these problems, however, is often compounded by expected climate change that is likely to bring additional uncertainty to decision-making.  In this session we seek to present and discuss different approaches to studying complex urban water issues through integrated, multidisciplinary and geographic approaches.

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