Managing Forest Ecosystem Services for Hydropower Production

In many countries, hydropower development is rapidly becoming a focus of green growth policies. This represents a significant opportunity for ecosystem services-based land management that integrates environmental and development goals to benefit the hydropower sector and support economic growth. In...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Vogl, Adrian L., Dennedy-Frank, P. James, Wolny, Stacie, Johnson, Justin A., Hamel, Perrine, Narain, Urvashi, Vaidya, Anil
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Elsevier 2017
Subjects:	HYDROPOWER ECOSYSTEM SERVICES SEDIMENT RETENTION WATER YIELD HIMACHAL PRADESH
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27682

id	okr-10986-27682
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	okr-10986-276822021-06-11T09:01:54Z Managing Forest Ecosystem Services for Hydropower Production Vogl, Adrian L. Dennedy-Frank, P. James Wolny, Stacie Johnson, Justin A. Hamel, Perrine Narain, Urvashi Vaidya, Anil HYDROPOWER ECOSYSTEM SERVICES SEDIMENT RETENTION WATER YIELD HIMACHAL PRADESH In many countries, hydropower development is rapidly becoming a focus of green growth policies. This represents a significant opportunity for ecosystem services-based land management that integrates environmental and development goals to benefit the hydropower sector and support economic growth. In this study, we present an approach for targeting ecosystem-provision investment in hydropower catchments coupled with hydrologic modeling to quantify the benefits of soil and water conservation activities. We demonstrate the application of this approach in five hydropower facility catchments in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. The results show that there is a high potential for targeted soil and water conservation to increase sediment retention services that benefit hydropower facilities (up to a 44% reduction in sediment transported from uplands into streams), although this benefit is distributed non-uniformly across catchments and levels of investment. The extent to which services can be improved is strongly driven by current land use and management practices that impact how and where conservation activities can be located. Iterative use of the method described here, in a process of stakeholder engagement and capacity-building, enables policy makers to determine the optimal mix of land management strategies and budget allocation to maximize service improvements that support hydropower production. 2017-08-08T22:20:38Z 2017-08-08T22:20:38Z 2016-07 Journal Article Environmental Science and Policy http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27682 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research South Asia India
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	Digital Repositories
building	World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection	World Bank
language	en_US
topic	HYDROPOWER ECOSYSTEM SERVICES SEDIMENT RETENTION WATER YIELD HIMACHAL PRADESH
spellingShingle	HYDROPOWER ECOSYSTEM SERVICES SEDIMENT RETENTION WATER YIELD HIMACHAL PRADESH Vogl, Adrian L. Dennedy-Frank, P. James Wolny, Stacie Johnson, Justin A. Hamel, Perrine Narain, Urvashi Vaidya, Anil Managing Forest Ecosystem Services for Hydropower Production
geographic_facet	South Asia India
description	In many countries, hydropower development is rapidly becoming a focus of green growth policies. This represents a significant opportunity for ecosystem services-based land management that integrates environmental and development goals to benefit the hydropower sector and support economic growth. In this study, we present an approach for targeting ecosystem-provision investment in hydropower catchments coupled with hydrologic modeling to quantify the benefits of soil and water conservation activities. We demonstrate the application of this approach in five hydropower facility catchments in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. The results show that there is a high potential for targeted soil and water conservation to increase sediment retention services that benefit hydropower facilities (up to a 44% reduction in sediment transported from uplands into streams), although this benefit is distributed non-uniformly across catchments and levels of investment. The extent to which services can be improved is strongly driven by current land use and management practices that impact how and where conservation activities can be located. Iterative use of the method described here, in a process of stakeholder engagement and capacity-building, enables policy makers to determine the optimal mix of land management strategies and budget allocation to maximize service improvements that support hydropower production.
format	Journal Article
author	Vogl, Adrian L. Dennedy-Frank, P. James Wolny, Stacie Johnson, Justin A. Hamel, Perrine Narain, Urvashi Vaidya, Anil
author_facet	Vogl, Adrian L. Dennedy-Frank, P. James Wolny, Stacie Johnson, Justin A. Hamel, Perrine Narain, Urvashi Vaidya, Anil
author_sort	Vogl, Adrian L.
title	Managing Forest Ecosystem Services for Hydropower Production
title_short	Managing Forest Ecosystem Services for Hydropower Production
title_full	Managing Forest Ecosystem Services for Hydropower Production
title_fullStr	Managing Forest Ecosystem Services for Hydropower Production
title_full_unstemmed	Managing Forest Ecosystem Services for Hydropower Production
title_sort	managing forest ecosystem services for hydropower production
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2017
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27682
_version_	1764465880593334272

Managing Forest Ecosystem Services for Hydropower Production

Similar Items