Environmental Flows for Hydropower Projects : Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets
This Good Practice Handbook is designed to provide guidance to practitioners on taking rigorous and consistent approaches to assess hydropower project impacts on downstream river ecosystems and people, and determine their Environmental Flows (EFlow...
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| Language: | English |
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International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/372731520945251027/Environmental-flows-for-hydropower-projects-guidance-for-the-private-sector-in-emerging-markets http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29541 |
| Summary: | This Good Practice Handbook is designed
to provide guidance to practitioners on taking rigorous and
consistent approaches to assess hydropower project impacts
on downstream river ecosystems and people, and determine
their Environmental Flows (EFlows) commitments. The Handbook
outlines a good practice approach for integrating EFlows
into hydropower projects, emphasizing the selection of
context-appropriate EFlows Assessment methods. Its structure
follows the main steps of this approach: 1. Understand the
context of river functioning and the provision of ecosystem
values and services into which EFlows will be introduced
(Section 2); 2. Understand the potential downstream impacts
associated with hydropower development (Section 3) and how
these can be mitigated (Section 4); 3. Align ESIA and EFlows
Assessments and ensure data sharing and good communication
between the assessment teams (see Section 5); 4. Apply a
context-appropriate EFlows Assessment method (Section 6); 5.
Conduct a comprehensive and appropriate stakeholder
engagement program leading to a decision on EFlows and other
mitigation measures based on the outcome of the assessment
(Sections 7 and 8); and 6. Prepare an Environmental Flow
Management Plan (EFMP2; Section 9). It also provides the
following: A logframe for integrating EFlows into hydropower
plants (Section 10); and Case studies to illustrate the main
concepts addressed in the Handbook (Section 11). |
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