More than the Fish: Environmental Flows for Good Policy and Governance, Poverty Alleviation and Climate Adaptation

Matthews, John; Forslund, Agneta; McClain, Michael E.; Tharme, Rebecca E.

doi:10.1016/j.aqpro.2014.07.004

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“…The response for other sub‐indicators of 6.6.1 on quantity and quality was equally limited. The consultation process also revealed the lack of data on discharge, essential for developing flow regimes suitable for the protection of aquatic biodiversity and related ecosystem services (Le Quesne, Kendy, & Weston, ; Matthews, Forslund, McClain, & Tharme, ).…”

Section: Monitoring and Sdg Indicators Of Wetland Extent And Freshwatmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The response for other sub-indicators of 6.6.1 on quantity and quality was equally limited. The consultation process also revealed the lack of data on discharge, essential for developing flow regimes suitable for the protection of aquatic biodiversity and related ecosystem services (Le Quesne, Kendy, & Weston, 2010;Matthews, Forslund, McClain, & Tharme, 2014). Target 6.3 of the SDGs, developing a multi-metric indicator (6.3.2) on ambient water quality, uses key attributes of pH, dissolved oxygen, electrical conductivity, nitrogen, and phosphorus ( UN Environment, 2018b).…”

Section: Monitoring and Sdg Indicators Of Wetland Extent And Freshwmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Editorial: Aquatic conservation in the age of the Sustainable Development Goals

Irvine

2018

Aquatic Conservation

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Section: Monitoring and Sdg Indicators Of Wetland Extent And Freshwatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Monitoring and Sdg Indicators Of Wetland Extent And Freshwmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial: Aquatic conservation in the age of the Sustainable Development Goals

Irvine

2018

Aquatic Conservation

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“…EF is defined as "the quantity, timing and quality of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human livelihoods and well-being that depend on these ecosystems" [8]. It is recognized that EF is an indispensable condition for equitable and sustainable use of water resources and that EF allows to maintain a balance between the ecosystems water needs and their biota and the anthropogenic activities that depend on this flow.…”

Section: National Water Reserves Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water Reserve for the Alvarado Coastal Lagoon Wetland as a Measure to Increase Resilience to Climate Change

Sanvicente-Sánchez

Castillo-Romano

Solís-Alvarado

2017

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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In Mexico, coastal zones are of great importance. The Inter-Census Population Survey 2015 establishes that 55.3 million of people live on 17 coastal states whose economic activities are tourism, fishing, commercial transportation and hydrocarbon exploitation, principally. Mexican coastal areas host a great diversity of ecosystems including rainforests, deserts, mangroves, dunes, wetlands, coral reefs and sea grass. Climatic change is considered as the main threat for the sustainability development of the countries, and costal zones are especially vulnerabilities. The National Water Reserves Program for the environment seeks to guarantee the volume of water required for the conservation of ecosystems and the maintenance of their ecosystem services as an ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) measure that increases resilience and reduces the vulnerability of communities as well as produces several social, economic and environmental co-benefits. The present work updates the potential water reserve (PWR) score for all water supply basins to the Alvarado coastal lagoon wetland, estimates 16,807.33 Hm 3 /year as the minimum environmental flow (EF) that would serve as a water reserve for the wetland. Projected natural average annual runoffs (NAAR) were estimated in the area for three climate change scenario (RCP 4.5, RCP 6.0 and RCP 8.5) and for two time periods (2015-2039 and 2075-2099). As result, the RCP 4.5 scenario would be the most critical in the period 2015-2039 with a 9.7% of reduction with respect the historical NAAR, and the scenario RCP 8.5 would be the most critical for the period 2075-2099 with a 22.29% of reduction. It was concluded that the water reserve for the "Llanuras del Papaloapan" basin (Papaloapan plains basin), where the wetland is located, is feasible for such climatic change scenarios and time periods and can be carried out as an EbA measure. Further work must be done to establish the inter-annual eco-hydrological regime for the EF.

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“…Social values, economic imperatives and cultural perspectives on human-nature relations all have a significant bearing on allocation frameworks, assessment methodologies and resulting water sharing decisions (see Matthews et al, 2014;Pahl-Wostl et al, 2013;Poff et al, 2010;van Wyk et al, 2006). There are however, few demonstrations of sociological assessment of environmental flow requirements (Pollard, 2000;2002;Lokgariwar et al, 2014;Wilson and Carpenter, 1999).…”

Section: Integrating Social Factors Into Environmental Flow Assessmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The paper addresses a broad need identified by Syme et al (2008) for methodologies that generate social and cultural information in a manner that can be incorporated into a systems view of sustainability within a catchment context. It achieves this by advancing methodologies designed to integrate social and environmental objectives within environmental flow assessments (EFAs); thereby fulfilling a wider role for environmental flows in the context of sustainable water resource management (Matthews et al, 2014). It employs a collaborative approach to water resource assessment and describes methods that rely on Indigenous input to improve the scope, legitimacy and fairness of water allocation processes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%