Water for the Environment

<p>Section I: Introduction<br>1. Introduction</p> <p>Section II: History and context of environmental flows<br>2. Drivers and social context<br>3. Understanding hydrological alteration<br>4. Ecological effects of hydrologic alteration<br>5. Geomorphological change</p> <p>Section III: Vision and objectives for the river system<br>6. Impacts of Hydrological Alterations on Water Quality<br>7. Stakeholder Engagement in Environmental Flows Management<br>8. Environmental flows and natural capital – free-flowing ecosystem services<br>9. Environmental water management’s cultural challenge<br>10. Environmental flow objectives and targets</p> <p>Section IV: How much water is needed? Tools for environmental water development<br>11. Evolution of flow principles and methodologies<br>12. Tools for sediment<br>13. Physical habitat modelling and ecohydrological tools<br>14. Ecological response modelling<br>15. Determining and addressing uncertainty</p> <p>Section V: Environmental water within Water Resource Planning<br>16. Water Budgets to Inform Sustainable Resource Management<br>17. Mechanisms to allocate environmental water<br>18. Rebalancing the system - Acquiring water and trade<br>19. Environmental Water Organizations and Institutional Settings<br>20. Management options informed by hydrological drivers<br>21. Managing Infrastructure to Maintain Natural Functions in Developed Rivers<br>22. Environmental water and integrated catchment management</p> <p>Section VI: Active management of environmental water<br>23. Planning the use of environmental water<br>24. Operational issues<br>25. Monitoring, evaluation and adaptive management of environmental flows<br>26. Performance Management: A Multi-criteria Policy Toolkit</p> <p>Section VII: Remaining challenges and way forward<br>27. Where to from here</p>