TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling interdependent water uses at the regional scale to engage stakeholders and enhance resilience in Central Arizona
AU - Anderies, John M.
AU - Smith-Heisters, Skaidra
AU - Eakin, Hallie
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors received financial support for this research from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Sectoral Applications Research Program, CSI Award NA110AR4310123, and the U.S. National Science Foundation, grant number GEO-1115054. Acknowledgments
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - As cities and agricultural areas face water challenges associated with climate change, it is important to develop a better understanding of how human and natural systems will respond at the scales at which those changes will occur. This requires analytical tools to systematically explore regional contexts where multiple interdependent water, agricultural, and urban infrastructures interact. Toward this end, we develop and analyze a stylized model of a regional-scale system in the Southwestern U.S. The system is comprised of the Phoenix and Tuscon metropolitan areas and surrounding agricultural districts within the Central Arizona Project service domain and the water delivery infrastructure that connects these areas to the Colorado River basin. We use the model to analyze the impacts of changes in runoff in the upper Colorado River basin and the Salt, Verde, and Agua Fria basins on water supplies in the Central Arizona Project service area. Specifically, we explore how conceptualizing the Phoenix and Tuscon metropolitan areas and surrounding agricultural districts as an integrated system of urban, agricultural, and conjunctive ground and surface water management infrastructures can lead to strategies to meet water demand while maintaining groundwater neutrality.
AB - As cities and agricultural areas face water challenges associated with climate change, it is important to develop a better understanding of how human and natural systems will respond at the scales at which those changes will occur. This requires analytical tools to systematically explore regional contexts where multiple interdependent water, agricultural, and urban infrastructures interact. Toward this end, we develop and analyze a stylized model of a regional-scale system in the Southwestern U.S. The system is comprised of the Phoenix and Tuscon metropolitan areas and surrounding agricultural districts within the Central Arizona Project service domain and the water delivery infrastructure that connects these areas to the Colorado River basin. We use the model to analyze the impacts of changes in runoff in the upper Colorado River basin and the Salt, Verde, and Agua Fria basins on water supplies in the Central Arizona Project service area. Specifically, we explore how conceptualizing the Phoenix and Tuscon metropolitan areas and surrounding agricultural districts as an integrated system of urban, agricultural, and conjunctive ground and surface water management infrastructures can lead to strategies to meet water demand while maintaining groundwater neutrality.
KW - Climate
KW - Coupled infrastructure systems
KW - Infrastructure
KW - Resilience
KW - Robustness
KW - Water
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U2 - 10.1007/s10113-020-01654-1
DO - 10.1007/s10113-020-01654-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089272576
SN - 1436-3798
VL - 20
JO - Regional Environmental Change
JF - Regional Environmental Change
IS - 3
M1 - 100
ER -