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Guidance on Environmental Flows : Integrating E-flow Science with Fluvial Geomorphology to Maintain Ecosystem Services
Fluvial systems provide a wide range of necessary services for human society to thrive on. These are the so-called ecosystem services: food, drinking water, natural flood mitigation, energy and so forth. Such services are linked to an appropriate level of functionality of fluvial processes, which can be accounted for in terms of ecological objectives. These ecological objectives in watercourses can be reached only if appropriate flow and sediment regimes and related quality of channel morphology are guaranteed. The establishment and maintenance of such flow regimes, namely environmental flows ...
Guidance on Environmental Flows: Integrating E-flow Science with Fluvial Geomorphology to Maintain Ecosystem Services
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Published by: WMO ; 2019 (2019 Edition)
Fluvial systems provide a wide range of necessary services for human society to thrive on. These are the so-called ecosystem services: food, drinking water, natural flood mitigation, energy and so forth. Such services are linked to an appropriate level of functionality of fluvial processes, which can be accounted for in terms of ecological objectives. These ecological objectives in watercourses can be reached only if appropriate flow and sediment regimes and related quality of channel morphology are guaranteed. The establishment and maintenance of such flow regimes, namely environmental flows (e-flows), is therefore an essential element in preserving riverine ecosystems and the services they provide, and should be included as a constraint in water resource assessment and in national legislative frameworks. It is well established that e-flows refer to the typical seasonal and interannual variability of the natural flow regime, and not only to the minimum amount of water (low flows) to be maintained in a river. In addition to this pure hydrological assessment of natural flow variability, there is also the necessity to link e-flow definition to the related hydromorphological processes and local ecological objectives of a river. This guidance therefore presents a methodology (based on knowledge and literature on river system processes) to consider hydrological and morphological aspects in defining e-flows for environmental river management.
Collection(s) and Series: WMO- No. 1235
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)ISBN (or other code): 978-92-63-11235-4
Tags: River basin ; Guide ; Technical Publications
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Accessing economic and political impacts of Hydrological variability on treaties: case studies on the Zambezi and Mekong basins
The term 'green jobs' can refer to employment in a narrowly defined set of industries providing environmental services. But it is more useful for the policy-maker to focus on the broader issue of the employment consequences of policies to correct environmental externalities such as anthropogenic climate change. Most of the literature focuses on direct employment created, with more cursory treatment of indirect and induced job creation, especially that arising from macroeconomic effects of policies. The potential adverse impacts of green growth policies on labor productivity and the costs of em ...
Accessing economic and political impacts of Hydrological variability on treaties: case studies on the Zambezi and Mekong basins
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Available online: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2012/03/1 [...]
Brian Blankespoor ; Alan Basist ; Ariel Dinar ; Shlomi Dinar ; World Bank
Published by: World Bank ; 2012The term 'green jobs' can refer to employment in a narrowly defined set of industries providing environmental services. But it is more useful for the policy-maker to focus on the broader issue of the employment consequences of policies to correct environmental externalities such as anthropogenic climate change. Most of the literature focuses on direct employment created, with more cursory treatment of indirect and induced job creation, especially that arising from macroeconomic effects of policies. The potential adverse impacts of green growth policies on labor productivity and the costs of employment tend to be overlooked. More attention also needs to be paid in this literature to how labor markets work in different types of economy. There may be wedges between the shadow wage and the actual wage, particularly in developing countries with segmented labor markets and after adverse aggregate demand shocks, warranting a bigger and longer-lasting boost to green projects with high labor content. In these circumstances, the transition to green growth and job creation can go hand in hand. But there are challenges, especially for countries that have built their industrial development strategies around cheap carbon-based energy. Induced structural change, green or otherwise, should be accompanied by active labor market policies.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Socio-economic benefits ; Hydrology ; River basin ; Region I - Africa ; Region II - Asia
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Integrated water resources management on a basin level: a training manual : a training material
Burton Jean - UNESCO, 2003
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Available online: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001319/131933e.pdf
Published by: UNESCO ; 2003
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Training ; Hydrology ; Manual ; Water management ; Conflict ; River basin ; WHYCOS Training Material
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The application of www facilities and services technologies: report on the RA III/ RA IV workshop on the pilot project on the Saint John river basin convened by WMO in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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Published by: WMO ; 1980
Language(s): English
Format: Hard copy (ill., charts)Tags: Information management ; Hydrology ; River basin ; Canada
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The application of www facilities and services technologies: report on the workshop on the pilot project on the Saint John river basin
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Published by: WMO ; 1979
Language(s): English
Format: Hard copyTags: Information management ; Hydrology ; River basin ; Canada ; United States of America
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