Ecological Drought: Accounting for the Non-Human Impacts of Water Shortage in the Upper Missouri Headwaters Basin, Montana, USA

Ecological Drought: Accounting for the Non-Human Impacts of Water Shortage in the Upper Missouri Headwaters Basin, Montana, USA

Water laws and drought plans are used to prioritize and allocate scarce water resources. Both have historically been human-centric, failing to account for non-human water needs. In this paper, we examine the development of instream flow legislation and the evolution of drought planning to highlight...

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Main Authors: Jamie McEvoy, Deborah J. Bathke, Nina Burkardt, Amanda E. Cravens, Tonya Haigh, Kimberly R. Hall, Michael J. Hayes, Theresa Jedd, Markéta Poděbradská, Elliot Wickham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-02-01
Series:Resources
Subjects:
ecological drought
drought planning
prior appropriation
instream flows
Upper Missouri Headwaters Basin
Montana
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/7/1/14

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