Research Catalog

Title

Adapting to a changing Colorado River : making future water deliveries more reliable through robust management strategies / David G. Groves, Jordan R. Fischbach, Evan Bloom, Debra Knopman, Ryan Keefe.

Author

Groves, David G.

Publication

• Santa Monica, CA : RAND, [2013]
• ©2013

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Additional Authors

• Fischbach, Jordan R.
• Bloom, Evan
• Knopman, Debra S.
• Keefe, Ryan
• Rand Environment, Energy, and Economic Development (Program), issuing body.
• Rand Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment (Organization), issuing body.
• Rand Corporation, issuing body.
• United States. Bureau of Reclamation, sponsoring body.

Description

xxvii, 70 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 28 cm

Summary

"The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and water management agencies representing the seven Colorado River Basin States initiated the Colorado River Basin Study in January 2010 to evaluate the resiliency of the Colorado River system over the next 50 years and compare different options for ensuring successful management of the river's resources. RAND was asked to join this Basin Study Team in January 2012 to help develop an analytic approach to identify key vulnerabilities in managing the Colorado River basin over the coming decades and to evaluate different options that could reduce this vulnerability. Using a quantitative approach for planning under uncertainty called Robust Decision Making (RDM), the RAND team assisted the Basin Study by: identifying future vulnerable conditions that could lead to imbalances that could cause the basin to be unable to meet its water delivery objectives; developing a computer-based tool to define 'portfolios' of management options reflecting different strategies for reducing basin imbalances; evaluating these portfolios across thousands of future scenarios to determine how much they could improve basin outcomes; and analyzing the results from the system simulations to identify key tradeoffs among the portfolios. This report describes RAND's contribution to the Basin Study, focusing on the methodologies used to identify vulnerabilities for Upper Basin and Lower Basin water supply reliability and compare portfolios of options. The report provides a useful resource for other planners wishing to replicate or expand on the methodologies used for other studies"--Back cover.

Subjects

• Water resources development
• North America > Colorado River Watershed
• Water-supply > Management
• Water resources development > Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
• Water-supply > Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico) > Management
• Climatic changes > Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)

Note

• "RAND Environment, Energy, and Economic Development Program."
• "The research described in this report was prepared for the United States Bureau of Reclamation and conducted in the Environment, Energy, and Economic Development Program within RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-70).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.

Contents

Long-Term Water Planning and Management Under Uncertainty -- Developing Robust Management Strategies for the Colorado River Basin -- Future Vulnerabilities to Colorado Basin Water Deliveries -- Reducing Vulnerabilities Through New Management Options -- Implementing a Robust, Adaptive Strategy for the Colorado River Basin -- Appendix A: Vulnerability Analysis Example and Additional Results -- Appendix B: Basin Study Options Included in the Portfolios.

Call Number

JBF 17-329

ISBN

• 0833081799
• 9780833081797

LCCN

2013953849

OCLC

867481096

Author

Groves, David G., author.

Title

Adapting to a changing Colorado River : making future water deliveries more reliable through robust management strategies / David G. Groves, Jordan R. Fischbach, Evan Bloom, Debra Knopman, Ryan Keefe.

Publisher

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-70).

Additional Formats

Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.

Added Author

Fischbach, Jordan R., author.

Bloom, Evan, author.

Knopman, Debra S., author.

Keefe, Ryan, author.

Rand Environment, Energy, and Economic Development (Program), issuing body.

Rand Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment (Organization), issuing body.

Rand Corporation, issuing body.

United States. Bureau of Reclamation, sponsoring body.

Report No.

RAND/RR-242-BOR

Research Call Number

JBF 17-329