Preserving our rivers: environmental water use in a changing climate

Disaggregated monthly hydrological models can outperform daily models in providing daily flow statistics and extrapolate well to a drying climate

Andrew John, Keirnan Fowler, Rory Nathan, Avril Horne, Michael Stewardson

2021-07-01

Daily timescale hydrological information is important for many purposes such as flood estimation, predicting the consequences of c..

Considering scale within optimization procedures for water management decisions: Balancing environmental flows and human needs

Diana Derepasko, Joseph HA Guillaume, Avril C Horne, Martin Volk

2021-05-01

A key issue in optimization model development is the selection of spatial and temporal scale representing the system. This study p..

Climate change and freshwater ecology: Hydrological and ecological methods of comparable complexity are needed to predict risk

Andrew John, Avril Horne, Rory Nathan, Michael Stewardson, J Angus Webb, Jun Wang, N LeRoy Poff

2020-11-18

Many freshwater ecosystems are in decline because of anthropogenic disturbance including climate change, yet our understanding of ..

How to incorporate climate change into modelling environmental water outcomes: a review

Andrew John, Rory Nathan, Avril Horne, Michael Stewardson, J Angus Webb

2020-06-01

Environmental water represents a key resource in managing freshwater ecosystems against pervasive threats. The impacts of climate ..

Modeling Flow-Ecology Responses in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Sustainable Riverine Management

Avril C Horne, Rory Nathan, N LeRoy Poff, Nick R Bond, J Angus Webb, Jun Wang, Andrew John

2019-10-01

Climate change will increase water stress in many regions placing greater pressures on rivers to meet human and ecological water n..

Assessing the degree of hydrologic stress due to climate change

RJ Nathan, TA McMahon, MC Peel, A Horne

2019-09-01

Hydrologists are commonly involved in impact, adaption and vulnerability assessments for climate change projections. This paper pr..

Reallocation through irrigation modernization: The ‘once-in-a-hundred-year’ opportunity of the North-South Pipeline, Australia

EL O'Donnell, DE Garrick, AC Horne

2019-04-01

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. There is growing international interest in securing water for cities by increasing the efficiency of irrigati..

Cry Me a River: Building Trust and Maintaining Legitimacy in Environmental Flows

EL O’Donnell, AC Horne, Lee Godden, B Head

2019-01-01

Water reforms in Australia over a decade ago have seen large-scale recovery of water for the environment. While the recovery progr..

Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Environmental Outcomes in the Context of Natural Climate Variability

Jun Wang, Rory Nathan, Avril Horne

2018-12-01

Climate change has emerged as a key threat to river ecosystems. This study presents a generic, conceptual framework for assessing ..

Environmental Water Efficiency: Maximizing Benefits and Minimizing Costs of Environmental Water Use and Management

Avril C Horne, Erin L O'Donnell, Adam J Loch, David C Adamson, Barry Hart, John Freebairn

2018-01-01

Environmental water management is a relatively new discipline, with concepts, management practice and institutional mechanisms tha..

The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018)

A Arthington, A Bhaduri, S Bunn, S Jackson, R Tharme, D Tickner, B Young, M Acreman, N Baker, S Capon, A Horne, E Kendy, M McClain, NL Poff, B Richter, S Ward

2018-01-01

A decade ago, scientists and practitioners working in environmental water management crystallized the progress and direction of en..