Is It Time to Resurrect the Harvard Water Program?

Reuss, Martin

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9496(2003)129:5(357)

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“…Thus, it reinforces the relevance of existing approaches that integrate social and physical sciences to solve water management problems, and the need to go further in that direction (Reuss, 2003;Lund, 2015).…”

Section: Concomitantly Societies Have Rising Expectations Regarding supporting

confidence: 55%

“…Nowadays, such initiatives have become even more necessary due to the growing complexity of water management issues (Reuss, 2003;Lund, 2015;Brown et al, 2015). River basin management models -often coupled with Decision Support Systems tools -have been developed at basin scale to assess the performance of water resource systems under different scenarios and policy strategies combining optimization and simulation frameworks (Andreu et al, 1996;Labadie, 2004, Singh, 2012Jacoby and Loucks, 1972).…”

Section: Integrated Water Resources Management Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(Wilby and Dessai, 2010;Mastrandrea et al, 2010;Ekström et al, 2013). Cela renforce ainsi la pertinence des approches existantes visant à intégrer les sciences naturelles et sociales pour résoudre les problèmes liés à la gestion de l'eau, et l'intérêt de poursuivre les recherches dans cette direction (Reuss, 2003;Lund, 2015). agricoles (Thivet and Fernandez, 2012), en passant par les possibilités de réformes au niveau institutionnel qui permettraient des changements dans l'organisation et les règles de gestion du bassin versant (Roggero, 2015).…”

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Integrating top-down and bottom-up approaches to design a cost-effective and equitable programme of measures for adaptation of a river basin to global change.

Girard

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This PhD thesis has been developed under a joint doctorate supervision agreement with the Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (SupAgro Montpellier, France). December 2015 A celles qui sont parties, A ceux qui sont arrivés,A ceux qui ont été là. | i AcknowledgementsThe preparation of this thesis has taken me on a journey that has led me across geographical, disciplinary, linguistic and cultural boarders. Along the way, I have had the good fortune of being able to count on the support of many people, without whom this experience would not have been so fruitful.I am grateful to them all.In particular, I thank those who agreed to show me the route: my advisors, Manuel Augusto Pulido Velázquez and Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, for the trust they have placed in me from the outset of this PhD, and for their complementary support throughout these years. Their interest and dedication to our work gave me the opportunity to participate in stimulating scientific cooperation and inspiring discussions.Manuel, gracias por la acogida en tu grupo de investigación y por haberme introducido al mundo de los modelos hidro-económicos, de GAMS, y de las "catalinas con queso". Tu fe en este trabajo y tu experiencia han sido determinantes para llegar a este resultado.Jean-Daniel, merci pour avoir partagé ton expérience d'économiste ancré dans la réalité du terrain, et pour avoir pris le temps de trouver les mots et les moyens pour mener ce projet à son terme. Sans ta motivation et créativité, cette thèse ne serait pas ce qu'elle est. Y por supuesto, le doy las gracias a Mar, que es gracias a quien he empezado y sin quien no sé dónde habría acabado esta aventura. Hemos avanzado juntos por los valles y por las cumbres de este camino que ahora acabamos, pero seguiremos caminando, se hace camino al andar.Finally, thanks to those who will read this thesis, for their interest in the research. | v AbstractAdaptation to the multiple facets of global change challenges the conventional means of sustainably planning and managing water resources at the river basin scale. Numerous demand or supply management options are available, from which adaptation measures need to be selected in a context of high uncertainty of future conditions. Given the interdependency of water users, agreements need to be found at the local level to implement the most effective adaptation measures. Therefore, this thesis develops an approach combining economics and water resources engineering to select a cost-effective programme of adaptation measures in the context of climate change uncertainty, and to define an equitable allocation of the cost of the adaptation plan between the stakeholders involved.A framework is developed to integrate inputs from the two main approaches commonly used to plan for adaptation. The first, referred to as "top-down", consists of a modelling chain going from global greenhouse gases emission scenarios to local hydrological models used to assess the impact of climate change on water resources. Conversely, the second approac...

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Section: Concomitantly Societies Have Rising Expectations Regarding supporting

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Section: Integrated Water Resources Management Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Integrating top-down and bottom-up approaches to design a cost-effective and equitable programme of measures for adaptation of a river basin to global change.

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“…The Federal Water Pollution Control Administration (FWPCA) and Harvard Water Program [28][29][30][31] issued an economic report in 1966 that concluded that water supply and recreation benefits due to improved water quality in the Delaware River would exceed water pollution control costs [32][33][34][35].…”

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The Cost of Clean Water in the Delaware River Basin (USA)

Kauffman

2018

Water

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Abstract:The Delaware River has made a marked recovery in the half-century since the adoption of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) Compact in 1961 and passage of the Federal Clean Water Act amendments during the 1970s. During the 1960s, the DRBC set a 3.5 mg/L dissolved oxygen criterion for the river based on an economic analysis that concluded that a waste load abatement program designed to meet fishable water quality goals would generate significant recreational and environmental benefits. Scientists with the Delaware Estuary Program have recently called for raising the 1960s dissolved oxygen criterion along the Delaware River from 3.5 mg/L to 5.0 mg/L to protect anadromous American shad and Atlantic sturgeon, and address the prospect of rising temperatures, sea levels, and salinity in the estuary. This research concludes, through a nitrogen marginal abatement cost (MAC) analysis, that it would be cost-effective to raise dissolved oxygen levels to meet a more stringent standard by prioritizing agricultural conservation and some wastewater treatment investments in the Delaware River watershed to remove 90% of the nitrogen load by 13.6 million kg N/year (30 million lb N/year) for just 35% ($160 million) of the $449 million total cost. The annual least cost to reduce nitrogen loads and raise dissolved oxygen levels to meet more stringent water quality standards in the Delaware River totals $45 million for atmospheric NOX reduction, $130 million for wastewater treatment, $132 million for agriculture conservation, and $141 million for urban stormwater retrofitting. This 21st century least cost analysis estimates that an annual investment of $50 million is needed to reduce pollutant loads in the Delaware River to raise dissolved oxygen levels to 4.0 mg/L, $150 million is needed for dissolved oxygen levels to reach 4.5 mg/L, and $449 million is needed for dissolved oxygen levels to reach 5.0 mg/L.

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“…Nowadays, such initiatives have become even more necessary due to the growing complexity of water management issues (Reuss, 2003). River basin management models -often coupled with Decision Support Systems tools -have been developed at basin scale to assess the performance of water resource systems under different scenarios and policy strategies (Andreu et al, 1996;Labadie, 2004 Pulido-Velazquez et al, 2008 andRiegels et al, 2013).…”

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An interdisciplinary modelling framework for selecting adaptation measures at the river basin scale in a global change scenario

Girard

Rinaudo²,

Pulido-Velázquez

et al. 2015

Environmental Modelling & Software

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Elsevier Girard, CDP.; Rinaudo, J.; Caballero, Y. (2015). An interdisciplinary modelling framework for selecting adaptation measures at the river basin scale in a global change scenario. Environmental Modelling and Software. 69:42-54. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.02.023 . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Highlights:• An interdisciplinary modelling framework is presented to analyse the effects of global change on water resource systems at the basin scale.• Present and future urban and agricultural water demands, as well as climate change scenario, are integrated into a river basin management model. • Future supply and demand management measures are selected using least-cost optimisation.• Trade-offs between the cost of adaptation measures, irrigated agriculture development, and environmental requirements are quantified.• Insights to improved integrated water management at basin scale through interdisciplinary modelling are provided.Abstract: Shaping global change adaptation strategy in water resource systems requires an interdisciplinary approach to deal with the multiple dimensions of the problem. The modelling framework presented integrates climate, economic, agronomic and hydrological scenarios to design a programme of adaptation measures at the river basin scale. Future demand scenarios, combined with a down-scaled climate scenario, provide the basis to estimate the demand and water resources in 2030.A least-cost river basin optimisation model is then applied to select adaptation measures ensuring that environmental and supply management goals are achieved. In the Orb river basin (France), the leastcost portfolio selected suggests mixing demand and supply side measures to adapt to global change.Trade-offs among the cost of the programme of measures, the deficit in agricultural water supply and the level of environmental flows are investigated. The challenges to implement such interdisciplinary approaches in the definition of adaptation strategies are finally discussed.

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Is It Time to Resurrect the Harvard Water Program?

Cited by 44 publications

References 6 publications

Integrating top-down and bottom-up approaches to design a cost-effective and equitable programme of measures for adaptation of a river basin to global change.

Integrating top-down and bottom-up approaches to design a cost-effective and equitable programme of measures for adaptation of a river basin to global change.

The Cost of Clean Water in the Delaware River Basin (USA)

An interdisciplinary modelling framework for selecting adaptation measures at the river basin scale in a global change scenario

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