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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Analysis of the Future of Freshwater Resources of Jo
 rdan: From Transboundary Competition to Climate Change"
DTSTART:20190528T121500
DTEND:20190528T130000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Steven Gorelick\, Professor\, Stanford University\, Dept. o
 f Earth\, Energy & Environmental Sciences\, USA - visiting professor at ET
 HZ\n\nAt Stanford University\, Steven Gorelick holds the Cyrus F. Tolman C
 haired Professorship in the School of Earth\, Energy\, and Environmental S
 ciences and is a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.
  He runs the Hydro Program in the Dept. of Earth System Science. At Stanfo
 rd since 1988\, Professor Gorelick directs the Global Freshwater Initiativ
 e\, and his two primary areas of research are water resources in developin
 g countries and ecohydrology. He is a member of the US National Academy of
  Engineering and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science.\nAbstract:\nIn arid regions throughout the world\, freshwater 
 system are at the confluence of drivers that include severely limited wate
 r supplies\, rapid population growth and demographic shifts\, transboundar
 y competition for shared freshwater resources\, climate change and variabi
 lity\, and institutional dysfunction. Our work focuses on Jordan\, which i
 s one of the water poorest countries in the world. We adopt a multi-agent 
 modeling framework to allow for the incorporation of institutional complex
 ity in evaluation of policy instruments aimed at improving Jordan’s fres
 hwater situation. The model employs a modular approach\, integrating bioph
 ysical modules that simulate natural and engineered phenomena with human m
 odules that represent behavior at multiple scales of decision making. The 
 human modules in turn adopt a multi-agent simulation approach\, defining a
 gents as autonomous decision makers at the government\, administrative\, o
 rganizational\, and user levels. Our approach evaluates policy interventio
 ns under a suite of scenarios that enable comparison of future freshwater 
 options.\n 
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