CASE STUDIES

The Conference Committee has selected the following U.S. based and international case studies that showcase local or regional experiences with drought, and drought’s effects on water-ecosystem services and environmental justice. Through the stories they tell, the case studies are intended to create both a visual context and a shared set of references for conference participants. Case studies will be showcased during the opening reception of the conference and will be available for public view on this website by early October, 2009.

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1. Living with thirst: People and wildlife in southern Africa’s variable climate part (1) part (2)
   Presenter: Anna Cathey and Andrea Gaughan, University of Florida
   Co-authors: Bill Kanapaux, Gregory Parent, Deborah Wojcik
2. Ecological futures are bleak for aquatic biota in a western Great Plains river basin Subject to groundwater pumping and drought part (1) part (2)
   Presenters: Jeff Falke and Kurt Fausch, Colorado State University
   Co-authors: Julie Scheurer, Robin Majelky, Angela Aldred, Deanna Durnford, Linda Riley, and Ramchand Oad
3. Trade-off in drought: Perceptions of need and injustice in water distribution in Australia
   Presenter: Catherine Gross, The Australian National University
4. Synergies and tradeoffs: Managing land to improve water supply in Kona, Hawai’i
   Presenter: Kate Brauman, Stanford University
   Co-authors: Gretchen Daily, David L. Freyberg
5. Managing drought: A case study in Owens Valley, California part (1) part (2)
   Presenters: Daniel Pritchett, California Native Plant Society, and Sara Manning, Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley
6. Perceptions and realities of changing water availability: Adapting to climate change in the Peruvian Andes part (1) part (2)
   Presenter: Katherine W. Dunbar, University of Georgia
7. Upstream-downstream water-use conflicts in the Apalachiola ecosystem
   Presenter: Laura Petes, Florida State University Coastal & Marine Laboratory
   Co-authors: R. Todd Engstrom, J. Kevin Craig, Andrew J. Smith
8. Challenges and opportunities in the management of a multi-year drought in South Florida (2006 -2008) part (1) part (2)
   Presenter: R. Thomas James, South Florida Water Management District
   Co-authors: Cynthia Gefvert, Paul McCormick, Christian Davenport, Wossenu Abtew, Ashie Akpoji, Veronica Anderson, Mateahel Ansar, Luis Cadavid, Kim O’Dell, Jesus Rodriguez, Dave Unsell
9. Paradoxes in adapting to droughts: The Rationality of Locality (Bear River Basin, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming) part (1) part (2)
   Presenters: Joanna Endter-Wada, Lisa W. Welsh, Rebekah Downard, and Karin Kettenring, Utah State University
10. Deserted: Forgetting nature, humanity, and history in the Salt River Bed (Arizona) part (1) part (2)
    Presenter: Colleen Strawhacker, Arizona State University
    Co-authors: Bethany B. Cutts, Kate J. Darby, Rebecca Hale, Elisabeth K. Larson, Adam Thorman
11. The Water front: A powerful environmental justice story
    Co-authors: Elizabeth Miller, Curtis Smith
12. Adaptations to extreme droughts and floods: Learning to sustain southeastern freshwater ecosystem services through regional comparisons
    Presenter: Alan P. Covich
    Co-authors: Amber Ignatius, Kyle McKay, Julie McEntire, Ted Gragson, Steve Golladay, Steve Opsahl