Multiscale land use impacts on water quality: Assessment, planning, and future perspectives in Brazil

K de Mello, RH Taniwaki, FR de Paula… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Brazil contains the largest volume of freshwater of any nation in the world; however, this
essential natural resource is threatened by rapid increases in water consumption and water …

Improving scientific impact: How to practice science that influences environmental policy and management

JRB Fisher, SA Wood, MA Bradford… - … Science and Practice, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Scientists devote substantial time and resources to research intended to help solve
environmental problems. Environmental managers and policymakers must decide how to …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of InVEST's water ecosystem service models in a Brazilian Subtropical Basin

PS An**ho, MAGA Barbosa, FF Mauad - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
The biophysical modeling of water ecosystem services is crucial to understanding their
availability, vulnerabilities, and fluxes. Among the most popular models, the Integrated …

Who are we measuring and modeling for? Supporting multilevel decision‐making in watershed management

LL Bremer, P Hamel… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As watershed management programs have become more common globally, so have efforts
to support these initiatives through hydrologic modeling and monitoring. However, these …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative evaluation of lumped and semi-distributed conceptual hydrological models: does model complexity enhance hydrograph prediction?

E Okiria, H Okazawa, K Noda, Y Kobayashi, S Suzuki… - Hydrology, 2022 - mdpi.com
The prediction of hydrological phenomena using simpler hydrological models requires less
computing power and input data compared to the more complex models. Ordinarily, a more …

Producing valuable information from hydrologic models of nature‐based solutions for water

KA Brauman, LL Bremer, P Hamel… - Integrated …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Nature‐based solutions (NBS) are an increasingly popular approach to water resources
management, with a growing number of projects designed to take advantage of landscape …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing LULC scenarios impact assessment in hydrological dynamics using participatory map** protocols in semiarid regions

D Rivas-Tabares, AM Tarquis, Á De Miguel… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Land use and land cover (LULC) scenarios in rural catchment hydrology are crucial to
describe the effects of future water dynamics. However, there is a lack of understanding of …

Evaluating InVEST model for simulating annual and seasonal water yield in data-scarce regions of the Abbay (Upper Blue Nile) Basin: implications for water resource …

T Gashaw, AW Worqlul, YT Dile, M Sahle… - Sustainable Water …, 2022 - Springer
In develo** countries, hydrological data is one of the limiting factors for evidence-based
water resources planning and management. Thus, evaluating the performance of …

Development of a cellular automata-based distributed hydrological model for simulating urban surface runoff

C Feng, N Zhang, T Habiyakare, H Yu - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study developed a distributed urban surface runoff model based on the cellular
automata framework (CA-DUSRM) to simulate two-dimensional urban surface runoff …

[HTML][HTML] Priority watershed management areas for groundwater recharge and drinking water protection: A case study from Hawai 'i Island

LL Bremer, N DeMaagd, CA Wada… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Worldwide, water utilities and other water users increasingly seek to finance watershed
protection and restoration in order to maintain or enhance water quality and quantity …