Overcoming Information Limitations for the Prescription of an Environmental Flow Regime for a Central American River

Hydropower dam construction is expanding rapidly in Central America because of the increasing demand for electricity. Although hydropower can provide a low-carbon source of energy, dams can also degrade socially valued riverine and riparian ecosystems and the services they provide. Such degradation...

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Main Authors:	Peter C. Esselman, Jeffrey J. Opperman
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	Resilience Alliance 2010-03-01
Series:	Ecology and Society
Subjects:	dams environmental flows fish assemblage Honduras hydrology traditional ecological knowledge tropics
Online Access:	http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss1/art6/
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