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U Arizona – IAI – U Católica • Collaboration strengthened during the course of IAI’s Cooperative Research Network CRN2

• Water, climate, adaptation • Energy, ecosystems challenges raised • UA and UC developing mechanisms to link

North and South American networks • Colaboración fortalecida através de la Red de Investigación CRN2 de IAI 

• Agua, clima, adaptación • Han surgido retos de energía y ecosistemas • UA y UC están desarrollando mecanísmos para vincular redes de norte y sudamérica 

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Network development

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RISK & VULNERABILITY 

‐ IAI Human Dimensions & Coop Resch Net CRN2 

‐ NOAA Sectoral Apps SARP/ Clim‐Soc CSI 

‐ NOAA Climate of Southwest CLIMAS 

‐ USGS Transboundary Aquifers TAAP 

‐ Az Water Inst – Water‐energy nexus 

‐ WateReuse Foundn 

RESILIENCE & ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT 

‐ NSF Resilient & Sustain Infrastruct RESIN 

‐ NSF Coupled Natural‐Human Systems CNH 

WATER SECURITY 

in development: 

‐ IAI CRN3 

‐ NSF PASI 

‐ IDRC CCW 

IAI • A treaty organization w/ conference of

parties • Existing multidisciplinary networks • Centers of competence • AQUASEC the first to develop, others

planned • Organización de tratado con conferencia de partes

• Redes interdisciplinarias existentes • Centros de excelencia • AQUASEC el primero que nace, otros en

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Desafíos en el continente americano

• Escasez de agua – hidroclimatológica – uso humano

• Inseguridad energética

• Adaptación – ciencia y política – redes

• Gobernanza – intersectorial – transfronteriza – inter-regional

• Water scarcity – hydroclimatological – human use 

• Energy insecurity • Adaptation – science & policy – networks 

• Governance – intersectoral – transboundary – cross‐regional  

Challenges in the

Americas

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Water Security • Working definition:

the availability of adequate quantities and qualities of water for societal needs and resilient ecosystems, in the context of current and future global change.

Seguridad Hídrica • Definición operativa: 

la disponibilidad de cantidades y calidades de agua suficientes para las necesidades de la sociedad y de los ecosistemas resilientes, en el contexto del cambio global actual y futuro. 

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Water security:

resilient human & ecosystem

uses

Climate risk

Drought

Flood

Vulnerabi l ity Vulnerabi l i ty

Adaptive management (water, energy, infrastructure, land,

and food systems) Governance (regional and transboundary)

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Riesgo climático

Seguridad hídrica: sistemas

humanos y ecosistemas resilientes

Vulnerabil idad Vulnerabi l idad

Inundación

Sequía Manejo adaptativo (agua,

energía, infraestructura, tierra, y sistemas al imentar ios)

Gobernanza (regional y transfronter iza)

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Climate risk and water security – linked adaptation strategies

Eco‐ and land system adaptation 

Water‐energy 

adaptation 

Urban & agricultural adaptation 

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Science – policy networks: research & stakeholder interactions on physical & human

processes

Water security

Eco- & land

systems

Urban systems 

Energy systems 

Agricultural systems 

Additional networks, e.g. mining 

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AQUASEC initiatives • Linking North-South America Networks ($300,000) – approved by IAI (bridge-fund for existing CRNs), 2012-15

• IAI CRN3 (April 2012) • International Development Research Centre – Canada

(Feb. 2012)

• Vínculo entre redes de norte y sudamérica ($300,000) – aprobado por IAI (fondo para CRN existentes), 2012-15

• IAI CRN3 (Abril 2012) • Centro de Investigación sobre Desarrollo Internacional –

Canadá (Feb. 2012)

Iniciativas de AQUASEC

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The water-energy-environment nexus in the Americas: global change driver and adaptive response

Challenges

(some, not all, shared regionally) • energy insecurity • freshwater scarcity • shifting demographics • globalized markets • climate change

Implications and impacts • societal vulnerability • threatened, impaired

ecosystems • earth-system resilience

destabilized

• planning under uncertainty • science & policy co-production • water, energy demand

management; adaptive infrastructure

• ecosystem restoration

• urbanization • land use change • economic globalization • hydro-climate non-stationarity

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Regional    ‐   Global 

Focus on societal and ecosystem processes that are both drivers and responses at regional scale of this project: • water-energy nexus • ecosystem adaptation Coupled water-energy (W-E) resource use for: • agriculture • urban growth • infrastructure Ecosystem change (EC): • invasive species • geographical range

shifts • water quality

impairment

responses

Implications of W-E, EC as drivers • societal vulnerability • threatened, impaired

ecosystems • earth-system resilience

destabilized

Implications of W-E, EC as responses • resilient social-

ecological systems • climate change

mitigation

drivers

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Questions?

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