Publication Date:
2018-06-16
Description:
Water, Vol. 10, Pages 794: Navigating the Water-Energy Governance Landscape and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in the Northern Patagonia Region of Argentina Water doi: 10.3390/w10060794 Authors: Laura Forni Marisa Escobar Pablo Cello Marta Marizza Gustavo Nadal Leonidas Girardin Fernando Losano Lisandro Bucciarelli Charles Young David Purkey Water scientists often find themselves interacting with decision-makers with varying levels of technical background. The sustainable management of water resources is complex by nature, and future conditions are highly uncertain, requiring modeling approaches capable of accommodating a variety of parameters and scenarios. Technical findings from these analyses need to be positioned and conducted within the governance institutions to ensure decision-makers utilize them. This paper examines the water resource challenges for a large basin in northern Patagonia, Argentina and utilizes the Robust Decision Support (RDS) framework to evaluate trade-offs and strategies in a participatory process that included researchers and decision-makers. Integrated water resources models using simulation modeling and decision space visualization show significant climate change impacts, which are augmented with irrigated agriculture expansion and increasing hydropower production.
Electronic ISSN:
2073-4441
Topics:
Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
