Minimizing environmental impacts of hydropower development: Transferring lessons from past projects to a proposed strategy for Chile

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 253-270

  Goodwin, Peter ^a   Jorde, Klaus ^a   Meier, Claudio ^b   Parra, Oscar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Chile; Computer based modelling; Dams; Ecohydraulics; Ecosystems; Environmental hydroinformatics; Environmental impacts; Hydropower

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846986352     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2006.005     Document Type: Article

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