Sustainable Development Doctoral Society
at Columbia University in the City of New York
February 18, 2011 Climate Change and its Social Consequences, Disasters and Conflict, General, Water Resource Management
Project by James Rising (with Prof. John Mutter): This research has two complementary directions: studying the projected evolution of flood variability in the Himalayan floodplain with respect to glacier melt. What portion of the current flooding along Himalayan rivers is attributable to glacier melt,…
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February 18, 2011 Ecosystem Services, Political Economy of Sustainable Development, Water Resource Management
Project by Xiaojia Bao: This paper initially built a theoretical model for governments’ fiscal response with respect to the distributive impacts of dams along a river basin. The model claimed that upstream counties should get compensated, while downstream counties should…
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February 18, 2011 General, Water Resource Management
Project by Xiaojia Bao: This paper modeled household water use in a water-scarce rural village in Northern China using household level data. Several household characteristics were identified to impact water use significantly. Household size shows a scale-economy effect, with a…
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January 31, 2011 Water Resource Management
Project by Chandra Kiran: There is a vast literature on groundwater management when recharge is stochastic and when demand is known. Given the developed country setting of this literature, there is no corresponding focus on stochastic demand, especially when demand…
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January 27, 2011 General, Water Resource Management
Dealing with spatial and temporal variation in water availability in a data-sparse environment Project by Anna Tompsett The project focuses on an area of the Niger Inland Delta near Tombouctou, Mali, where there is very little data available for water…
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March 9, 2010 Conferences, Research, Video, Water Resource Management
Ram Fishman presented a talk and a poster, both about his current research on groundwater depletion in India, at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Videos of both are below.