Designing rivers: Environmental flows for ecosystem services in rivers natural and novel
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 23:30
in Earth & Climate
Authors discuss different approaches to achieving 'environmental flows' of water to sustain river ecosystems, from controlled releases designed with specific objectives for ecology and ecosystem services in mind, like the recent experiment on the Colorado River, to hands-off policies that minimize or reverse alterations to the natural flow of the river, like the recent demolition of dams on the Elwha River in Washington State.