Environmental Flows: Striking the Balance between Development and Resource Protection

By J. King, Cate Brown. 2006

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Management of scarce water resources through the use of environmental flows, particularly in developing countries in data-poor arid areas, raises many scientific challenges. These include transforming hydrological data into an ecologically relevant format, providing quantified predictions of river responses to flow change, describing the impacts of river change on common-property users of the rivers, providing the information in a format that decision makers can use, and guiding monitoring and adaptive management. Each of these challenges emerged in South Africa during the last two decades, when rivers and other aquatic ecosystems were enhanced in stature from having no rights to their own water to being one of only two sectors with a right to water; the other sector is for basic human needs. This paper outlines the challenges, how they are being addressed in South Africa, and perceptions of what remains to be done.

Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ocean Engineering, Sociology and Political Science

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Ethics and Water Governance (2013, background): “Nuanced approaches to institutional considerations have drawn attention to the rich potential for integrating social and economic development (e.g., Dasgupta and Serageldin 2000).”
Preserving the biodiversity and ecological services of rivers: new challenges and research opportunities: Preserving the biodiversity and ecological services of rivers (2010, methodology): “These approaches draw strength from knowledge of the subject river system or rivers of similar character, or the life history characteristics for species in nearby parts of their natural range (Arthington et al., 2003; Tharme, 2003; King & Brown, 2006).”
Guidelines for improved management of riparian zones invaded by alien plants in South Africa (2008, background): “An important research objective (outside the scope of this Special Issue) is to establish the ecological flows required to maintain river and riparian functioning (King and Brown, 2006).”