Colin Apse

TL;DR: The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA) as mentioned in this paper is a framework for assessing environmental flow needs for many streams and rivers simultaneously to foster development and implementation of environmental flow standards at the regional scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a presumptive standard based on the Sustainability Boundary Approach of Richter (2009) which involves restricting hydrologic alterations to within a percentage-based range around natural or historic flow variability.

TL;DR: In this paper, a generalized water evaluation and planning model (WEAP) is proposed to enable general explorations of relations between reservoir storage, instream flow, and water supply yield for a wide class of reservoirs and operating rules.

TL;DR: The Penobscot River Restoration Project (PRP) as mentioned in this paper is an example of a basin-scale approach for sustainable hydropower development and operation that is more environmentally and socially sustainable than can be achieved at the scale of individual projects.

TL;DR: In this paper, a methodology is introduced to evaluate water management policies and their impacts on the characteristics of both instream flow and water supply reliability, and an approach that involves both simulation and optimization of alternative reservoir release policies.