Bridging Hydrology with Ecology and Environmental River Sustainability: The Role of Environmental Flows
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 437
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hydrology; environmental; floods; remote sensing
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Dear Colleagues,
Historically, the topic of environmental flow has been strongly linked with approaches describing
the quantity, timing, and quality of river flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems. Environmental flow is a vital tool for managing water in the water–energy–food nexus.
From a scientific viewpoint, we can see this task as an initiative to balance water consumption and human-made pressure on water resources with environmental sustainability. Loss of natural flow regimes disrupts the productivity of freshwater and estuarine fisheries and of flood-recession agriculture. Communities downstream face increasing conflict over water access and lose the resilience needed to cope with water scarcity.
Over the last 50 years, numerous models of different complexity have been developed to produce a proper and altered river flow under different components. These methods include simplified hydrological methods, advanced hydrological methods, habitat methods, and holistic methods.
For this Special Issue of Sustainability, we seek papers describing interactions between river hydrology, river hydromorphology, habitat, and biological response as a foundation for establishing integrated environmental flow models. Basic science papers as well as applied novel scientific and administrative approach descriptions are welcome.
Dr. Aristoteles Tegos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Advanced hydrology e-flows
- Holistic e-flows
- Drougth river modelling
- Fish habitat
- Fabitat simulations
- River regulation
- Channel modification
- Environmental regulation
