讲座简介：

Prolonged droughts and increasing urban inequity create a growing risk of unprecedented water security challenges in emerging mega-cities. One such rapidly developing major urban agglomeration is Pune, India’s 9th largest city. Our research shows that the combined impacts of urbanization and a mid-century multi-year drought under climate change affect all Pune households, but hit hardest are the urban poor living in informal settlements. Through a novel coupled human-natural systems framework, we identify a mix of measures involving water reallocation, an agricultural-to-urban tanker water market, infrastructural improvements, and water regulations that effectively address water insecurity and inequity.

主讲人简介：

Steven Gorelick holds the Cyrus F. Tolman chaired professorship in Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability and is a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment. He runs the Hydro Program in the Dept. of Earth System Science and directs the Global Freshwater Initiative. His published research includes groundwater management, water security, water resources vulnerability in developing regions, optimal groundwater remediation design, hydrogeophysics, ecohydrology, groundwater solute transport processes, and global oil supply and demand. He has led major projects in Mexico, Jordan, India, Cambodia, Vietnam and the United States. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the Geological Society of America, as well as a Fulbright and Guggenheim fellow.

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