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Land-use and water demand projections (2012 to 2065) under different scenarios of environmental change for North Carolina, South Carolina, and coastal Georgia

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Start Date
2012
End Date
2065

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Sanchez, G.M., Terando, A., Smith, J.W., Garcia, A.M., Wagner, C.R., and Meentemeyer, R.K., 2020, Land-use and water demand projections (2012 to 2065) under different scenarios of environmental change for North Carolina, South Carolina, and coastal Georgia: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95PTP5G.

Summary

Urban growth and climate change together complicate planning efforts meant to adapt to increasingly scarce water supplies. Several studies have shown the impacts of urban planning and climate change separately, but little attention has been given to their combined impact on long-term urban water demand forecasting. Here we coupled land and climate change projections with empirically-derived coefficient estimates of urban water use (sum of public supply, industrial, and domestic use) to forecast water demand under scenarios of future population densities and climate warming. We simulated two scenarios of urban growth from 2012 to 2065 using the FUTure Urban-Regional Environment Simulation (FUTURES) framework. FUTURES is an open-source [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Georgina M Sanchez Salas
Originator :
Georgina M Sanchez Salas, Adam J Terando, Jordan Smith, Ana Maria Garcia, Chad R Wagner, Ross K Meentemeyer
Metadata Contact :
Georgina M Sanchez Salas
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
South Atlantic Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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Metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		56.91 KB application/fgdc+xml
CensusTracts.zip
“Census Tract boundaries” 		27.11 MB application/zip
Projected_WaterDemand_Total.csv 347.23 KB text/csv
ExampleSimulationOutput.jpg thumbnail 5.04 MB image/jpeg
2012_to_2065_UrbanGrowthProjections.zip 518.7 MB application/zip

Purpose

This data was generated as part of the stakeholder-driven assessments of water availability supported by the National Water Census Focus Area Studies: Coastal Carolinas. For local and regional decision makers, land use planners, and their stakeholders this data can provide a better understanding of the implications of their planning and development choices on future water needs.
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