Reducing regional water supply vulnerabilities and multi-city robustness conflicts when confronting a deeply uncertain future
Dr Reed will be speaking on research that involved engagement with water utilities in North Carolina, to examine a multi-stakeholder Many-Objective Robust Decision Making (MORDM) framework to better account for deeply uncertain factors when identifying cooperative management strategies. Emerging water scarcity concerns in south-eastern US are associated with several deeply uncertain factors, including rapid population growth, limited coordination across adjacent municipalities and increasing risk of sustained regional droughts. Managing uncertainties requires that water utilities identify regionally coordinated, scarcity-mitigating strategies that trigger the appropriate actions needed to avoid water shortages and financial instabilities.
Date: 8 February 2016, 17:00 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2016)
Venue: J Gottmann Room, School of Geography and the Environment
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organising department: School of Geography and the Environment
Organiser: Dr Helen Gavin (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: helen.gavin@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford Water Network
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Karis McLaughlin