California's Far Out Water Management Institutional and Infrastructure Adaptation to High Hydrologic Variability
Dr. Jay Lund
University of California – Davis
DEIB - Conference Room "E. Gatti" (building 20)
February 13th, 2020
11.00 am
Contacts:
Andrea Castelletti
Research Line:
Planning and management of environmental systems
University of California – Davis
DEIB - Conference Room "E. Gatti" (building 20)
February 13th, 2020
11.00 am
Contacts:
Andrea Castelletti
Research Line:
Planning and management of environmental systems
Sommario
California is a somewhat dry region with high hydrologic variability, having more floods and droughts per average year than almost any other part of the United States. Over more than a century California’s water management institutions, laws, and infrastructure have adapted to this unusual American climate and a changing globalized economic structure, spurred on by a series of natural and un-natural disasters. This talk reviews this history and its underlying processes, and then discusses current and ongoing challenges, particularly related to ecosystem management and climate change. Modeling and analytical challenges also are discussed.
Biografia
Dr. Jay Lund is Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California – Davis. He has long enjoyed teaching, research, and engagement on many aspects of theory and practice for water management and policy, usually trying to integrating economics and operations research with traditional engineering. He has become particularly engaged in working on the wide range of water problems in California with many collaborators, and remains enthusiastic about the potential of system analysis and optimization to provide understanding and insights for management and policy. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and an Adjunct Fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). In California he was on the Advisory Committee for the 1998 and 2005 California Water Plan Updates, and has served as Convenor of the California Water and Environment Modeling Forum and Chair of California’s Delta Independent Science Board. He has long been involved in applying economic and optimization ideas to provide insights on California’s water problems, including the development and use of the CALVIN model of California’s water supply system. He is a lead author of Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (UC Press 2010) and Managing California’s Water: From Conflict to Reconciliation (PPIC 2011).
