Concerns for water resources have inspired research developments to determine the ecological effects of water withdrawals from rivers and flow regulation below dams, and to advance tools for determining the flows required to sustain healthy riverine ecosystems. This paper reviews the advances of this environmental flows science over the past 30 years since the introduction of the Instream Flow ...

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The main objective of this paper is to design and test a decentralized exchange mechanism that generates the location-specific pricing necessary to achieve efficient allocations in the presence of instream flow values. Although a market-oriented approach has the potential to improve upon traditional command and control regulations, questions remain about how these rights-based institutions can ...

Based on the premise of flood management, administration of rivers in Taiwan consists of building many water structures to protect the lives and properties of people. But the ecological equilibrium of the area may possibly be damaged. Thus, how to maintain the ecological instream flow and how to lessen the negative impact of human development on river ecology are topics that have to be further ...