AGU Session on Global Water Risks

[Margaret Garcia]

Dear Colleagues,

Oliver Wing, Ashish Shrestha, Noemi Vergopolan, Annika Hjelmstad and I are convening an AGU session on Global Water Risks focused on large scale flood and drought risk assessment. We'd love to see submissions from the Water & Society community. Please see the details below.

Best,

Margaret

H075. Global Water Risks: Advances in Large-Scale Flood and Drought Risk Assessment and Management for a Resilient Future

Session Description: The UN2023 Water Conference reaffirmed water’s key role in achieving the SDGs, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and global efforts on climate mitigation and adaptation. Tackling water-related challenges like floods and droughts requires collaborations across disciplines, sectors and regions. This session invites contributions that  (1) showcase the state-of-the-art in large-scale water-risks science; (2) foster broader exchange of knowledge, datasets, and methods; and (3) identify future research avenues. We welcome submissions featuring water-related hazards and risks and interactions between them. We encourage contributions promoting globally applicable approaches, such as novel datasets, risk assessment and modeling frameworks, or downscaling techniques that ensure local relevance in decision-making and integration across built, natural, and human systems. This session aims to inform the future research agenda for global water risks and contribute to improving our ability to make timely and actionable decisions to build a resilient future.