Critical Factors for Water Policy to Enable Effective Environmental Flow Implementation
During the last two decades many countries have recognized the integral part that environmental flows should play in water management and have incorporated environmental flow provisions as they have updated water policy. This brief sets out generic recommendations for governments and other stakehold...
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| author | Andrew J. Harwood David Tickner Brian D. Richter Allan Locke Susan Johnson Xuezhong Yu |
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| description | During the last two decades many countries have recognized the integral part that environmental flows should play in water management and have incorporated environmental flow provisions as they have updated water policy. This brief sets out generic recommendations for governments and other stakeholders on factors that, if reflected in policy frameworks, are likely to enable scaling up of environmental flow implementation. Our recommendations have been informed by a review of political, economic, social and scientific enabling factors that led to environmental flow implementation in eight rivers across the world. Legislation and regulation are pre-requisites for effective environmental flow implementation. Depending on context, we describe a number of other factors that can provide a foundation for effective environmental flows policy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5dfbe5d03fad459a86d2463daeb6d6692022-12-22T02:07:08ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Environmental Science2296-665X2018-05-01610.3389/fenvs.2018.00037360972Critical Factors for Water Policy to Enable Effective Environmental Flow ImplementationAndrew J. Harwood0David Tickner1Brian D. Richter2Allan Locke3Susan Johnson4Xuezhong Yu5Ecofish Research Ltd., Cranbrook, BC, CanadaWorld Wildlife Fund, Woking, United KingdomSustainable Waters, Crozet, VA, United StatesLocke and Associates, Kaslo, BC, CanadaEcofish Research Ltd., Vancouver, BC, CanadaEcofish Research Ltd., Calgary, AB, CanadaDuring the last two decades many countries have recognized the integral part that environmental flows should play in water management and have incorporated environmental flow provisions as they have updated water policy. This brief sets out generic recommendations for governments and other stakeholders on factors that, if reflected in policy frameworks, are likely to enable scaling up of environmental flow implementation. Our recommendations have been informed by a review of political, economic, social and scientific enabling factors that led to environmental flow implementation in eight rivers across the world. Legislation and regulation are pre-requisites for effective environmental flow implementation. Depending on context, we describe a number of other factors that can provide a foundation for effective environmental flows policy.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00037/fullenvironmental flowswater policyimplementationenabling factorswater managementdams |
| spellingShingle | Andrew J. Harwood David Tickner Brian D. Richter Allan Locke Susan Johnson Xuezhong Yu Critical Factors for Water Policy to Enable Effective Environmental Flow Implementation Frontiers in Environmental Science environmental flows water policy implementation enabling factors water management dams |
| title | Critical Factors for Water Policy to Enable Effective Environmental Flow Implementation |
| title_full | Critical Factors for Water Policy to Enable Effective Environmental Flow Implementation |
| title_fullStr | Critical Factors for Water Policy to Enable Effective Environmental Flow Implementation |
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| title_short | Critical Factors for Water Policy to Enable Effective Environmental Flow Implementation |
| title_sort | critical factors for water policy to enable effective environmental flow implementation |
| topic | environmental flows water policy implementation enabling factors water management dams |
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