Research project
Institutions, climate services and adaptation: water resource planning under uncertainty in the Cauvery River Basin in Karnataka
- Start date: 1 October 2013
- End date: 1 September 2018
- Funder: ESRC
- Partners and collaborators: London School of Economics
- Primary investigator: Professor Suraje Dessai
- Co-investigators: Dr Ajay Bhave
An investigation of water resource planning under uncertainty in the Cauvery River Basin in Karnataka: Uncertainty about the regional impacts of climate change and rapidly changing socio-economic conditions make long-term planning of water resources problematic. Robust Decision Making (RDM) approaches seek to identify strategies that work reasonably well across large ranges of uncertain future conditions. This research project will use the RDM approach to study water resource planning under uncertainty in the Cauvery River Basin in Karnataka (CRB-K), in southern India.
Publications and outputs
Dessai, S., Bhave, A., Birch, C.E., Conway, D., Garcia-Carreras, L., Gosling, J.P., Mittal, N. and Stainforth, D.A. 2018. Building narratives to characterise uncertainty in regional climate change through expert elicitation. Environmental Research Letters. 13(7). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aabcdd Bhave, A.J., Conway, D., Dessai, S. and Stainforth, D.A. 2018. Water Resource Planning Under Future Climate and Socio-Economic Uncertainty in the Cauvery River Basin in Karnataka, India. Water Resources Research. 54(2), pp. 708-728. DOI: 10.1002/2017WR020970