CAPIM/PIRE Update
David Feldman (UCI)
Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
CAPIM/PIRE Update
PIRE Retreat
Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
January 25, 2014
Slide #1
Transitioning to Integrated Water Resource
Management (IRWM) from Traditional Practices
Integrated
Water
Resources
Management
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•Driven by need to develop holistic approach to sustainably
manage diverse water resource issues.
•Focus on community learning and place-based solutions.
•Innovative, integrated resource frameworks that capture
social, economic, as well as environmental elements.
•Highly applicable to semi-arid climates.
Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
January 25, 2014
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PIRE-CAPIM Collaboration
UCI
• Center for Aquatic Pollution Identification and Management: based at
University of Melbourne
• New technologies to improve monitoring, identify priority pollutants, detect
sources of major pollutants and assist in management of pollution issues
• Experience with reclaimed water offset scheme- saved Melbourne Water $80
M (Upper Dandenong Project)
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Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
January 25, 2014
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CAPIM’s Study Area: Jacksons Creek Catchment
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Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
January 25, 2014
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Jacksons Creek Catchment: Site of Interest
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Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
January 25, 2014
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Australian Smart Water Fund for Water Quality
Offsets Framework
• Australian Smart Water Fund issued a bid for funding an IWRM
Framework based on Jacksons Creek Experiment
• Key stakeholders – Victorian Water Industry, regional partners, EPA, DEPI,
OLV, CAPIM, Local Government)
• PIRE partnered with CAPIM to respond to RFP
Source: Smart Water Fund RPF
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Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
January 25, 2014
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NSF PIRE-CAPIM Project Goal
Conduct integrated assessment of environmental, social, and economic
components of water management strategies in Jacksons Creek Watershed as a
foundation for understanding use of environmental offsets on a broader scale.
Key Questions:
1) What are the social and environmental impacts of the current offset scenarios
in Jacksons Creek?
2) What are optimal strategies for achieving net positive societal, economic,
and environmental benefits in the watershed (and what are their lessons)?
3) What are impediments/opportunities to applying such strategies to other
locations (e.g. Southern California)?
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Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
January 25, 2014
Slide #7
Watershed/water
quality model to
evaluate trade offs
Phase 1
Develop a
conceptual
framework
Decision
Tree
Analysis
Social/political
Evaluation
Optimal
Strategies
Economic
Evaluation
Watershed/water
quality model
Phase 2
Explore Scenarios
Social/political
Evaluation
Decision
Tree
Analysis
Optimal
Strategies
Economic
Evaluation
Phase 3
Expand framework based
on scenario analysis
Apply to other sites
(Australia and Southern
California)
Benefits/
Impediments
Conceptual Framework (under construction)
Demographic changes,
economic activities,
Land use
Design offset decisions,
other management
decisions
Water Management
Climate change
Reduce
Recycle
Reuse
Indicator and acceptable
tradeoffs
Human Health
Ecological
Responses
Impacts (social, and
economic)
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Benthic/Eutrophication
Micropollutant
Toxicity
Changes in human
perception, attitudes,
and behavior
Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
January 25, 2014
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Options for Capturing Value
Traditional
Willingness to Pay
• Standard, contingent value approach
• Limited in terms of value capture
Place-based,
Intrinsic Value
• Designed to capture intrinsic value of cultural,
historic, and ecological assets
• Community generated list of assets produces
ranked list of preferences
Interactive, Game
Theory
• Workshop participants engage in WTP exercise
based on interactive, game theoretic model
• Consequences to WTP decisions are immediate
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Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
January 25, 2014
Slide #10
Typology for Public Participation in Integrated
Assessments
Mapping Out Diversity
Scientistsstakeholder
workshop
Focus
Groups
Participatory
Modelling
Process
as a
goal
Policy
Exercises
Scenario
Analysis
Process
as a
Means
Citizen’s
Juries
Participatory
Planning
Consensus
Conference
Reaching Consensus
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Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
Source: van Asselt Marjolein & Rijkens-Klomp (2002)
January 25, 2014
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Timeline and Products
•
Year 1
Year 2
Years
3, 4
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Develop conceptual framework and identify framework
assessment indicators
Conduct interviews
Compile existing data
Assessment of biological impact of Jacksons Creek offsets
Develop watershed/water quality model for Jacksons
Creek
Perform decision tree analyses
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Incorporate climate change modeling
Explore scenarios
Focus group interviews to assess options
Continue decision tree analyses
•
Apply framework to other test cases
(Southern California)
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Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
•
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Publications
Conference
presentations
User workshop
Integrated
Assessment
Framework
January 25, 2014
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Thank You
Questions?
Contact
feldmand@uci.edu
ashmitas@sccwrp.org
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Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
January 25, 2014
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Identification of Potential Stressors
Endpoints Measured
Key Outcomes
Water Chemistry
Nutrients, Pesticides,
Estrogenicity
Identify potential stressors
Discharge Water
Nutrients,
Pesticides, Estrogenicity
Identify potential stressors
Sediment Chemistry
Nutrients, Hydrocarbons,
Pesticides
Identify potential stressors
Toxicity
Algal Inhibition
Macroinvertebrate Impairment
Identify if pollutants are negatively impacting the
flora and fauna
Faunal Alteration
Macroinvertebrate Impairment
Fish Impairment
Identify the condition of fauna
Endocrine Disruption Macroinvertebrate Impairment
Fish Impairment
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Identify if endocrine disrupting chemicals are
affecting faunal condition
Dr. David Feldman (UCI)
Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)
January 25, 2014
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