Implementation of Environmental Flows for Intermittent River Systems: Adaptive Management and Stakeholder Participation Facilitate Implementation

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Conallin ◽  
Emma Wilson ◽  
Josh Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Environmental Flows ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
River Systems ◽  
Intermittent River

Stakeholder Participation in Freshwater Monitoring and Evaluation Programs: Applying Thresholds of Potential Concern within Environmental Flows

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Conallin ◽  
Craig A. McLoughlin ◽  
Josh Campbell ◽  
Roger Knight ◽  
Troy Bright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Flows ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Programs ◽  
Freshwater Monitoring

An Assessment of Stream Flow Modelling Combined with The Montana Method as a Basis for Developing Optimal Environmental Flows Below a Proposed Dam.

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
D Goldney ◽  
L. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Flows ◽  
Flow Conditions ◽  
River Systems ◽  
Order Stream ◽  
Ecosystem Integrity ◽  
Freshwater Organisms ◽  
Freshwater Biota ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Management Flow ◽  
Australian Freshwater

Little research has been carried out in Australia to determine the riparian and environmental flows needed to maintain riverine ecosystem integrity. Given the range of organisms present in the Australian freshwater biota, each with its own optimal requirements, it is probable that management flow conditions arrived at from species-specific studies, may not necessarily benefit all organisms. We also have inadequate understanding of how freshwater organisms interact with dynamic changes that occur in river systems (drought and flood), and the generally degraded nature of these streams. Hence formulating management outcomes in regard to flow conditions must be viewed as a particularly complex issue. In this paper a case history study is described for a tableland stream in the central west of New South Wales, where a major dam is being built on a first order stream. Comparisons are made with three other creek/river systems in the central tablelands and some implications for platypus conservation are identified.

Evaluating the Ecological Benefits of Management Actions to Complement Environmental Flows in River Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Nicol ◽  
J. Angus Webb ◽  
Rebecca E. Lester ◽  
Marcus Cooling ◽  
Paul Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Flows ◽  
River Systems ◽  
Ecological Benefits ◽  
Management Actions

Australia's Environmental Flow Initiative: filling some knowledge gaps and exposing others

2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (9) ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Gippel
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Flows ◽  
Rapid Assessment ◽  
Environmental Values ◽  
River Systems ◽  
Knowledge Gaps ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable

Many of Australia's river systems have been seriously degraded by inappropriate management of regulated flows. Other systems are facing threats from future water resources developments. There is a lack of information available to aid in allocation of environmental flows to rivers in order that they are managed in an ecologically sustainable manner. The Environmental Flows Initiative (EFI) is a major Australia-wide R&D program into environmental flows, funded through the Natural Heritage Trust (NHT), and administered by Environment Australia (EA). The program aims to identify environmental values, undertake targeted research to identify risks to river systems and flow requirements to sustain environmental values, to trial flow management options, and to evaluate these trials. The NHT relies on matching funding provided by the State and Territory authorities, and supports integrative approaches with emphasis on works on-the-ground where possible. While the EFI will close significant knowledge gaps, other gaps remain. Some of these relate to development and validation of rapid assessment techniques, understanding the importance of flow variability and how to define it, manipulation of flows to control alien species, developing a system of prioritising rivers for environmental flows, and enhancing flows with other catchment, channel and floodplain rehabilitation measures.

Dam Design can Impede Adaptive Management of Environmental Flows: A Case Study from the Opuha Dam, New Zealand

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 459-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
JoAnna Lessard ◽  
D. Murray Hicks ◽  
Ton H. Snelder ◽  
David B. Arscott ◽  
Scott T. Larned ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Environmental Flows

scholarly journals Adaptive Management of Environmental Flows

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Angus Webb ◽  
Robyn J. Watts ◽  
Catherine Allan ◽  
John C. Conallin
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Environmental Flows
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