Reducing regional water supply vulnerabilities and multi-city robustness conflicts when confronting a deeply uncertain future
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
The School is proud to welcome Dr Patrick M. Reed from Cornell University, USA, to give a talk on, “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: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Gottmann Rm, School of Geography and the Environment
Speaker: Dr Patrick M. Reed (Cornell University)
Organising department: School of Geography and the Environment
Organisers: Professor Jim Hall (Director, Environmental Change Institute), Dr Helen Gavin (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: helen.gavin@eci.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Helen Gavin (University of Oxford)
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Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Helen Gavin