Environmental Flows—Water for People and Nature in the Southeast
"Developing a dialogue for balancing human and environmental needs for water in a rapidly changing region"
A conference promoted by the Southeastern Environmental Flows Partnership
October 27 to 29, 2008, The Classic Center in Athens, Georgia
Keynote Speakers:
- Brian Richter, The Nature Conservancy
- Sandra Postel, Global Water Policy Project
Conference Topics:
- Watershed planning and management for maintaining environmental flows
- Economic issues: Pros and cons of maintaining environmental flows
- Environmental flows for a healthy ecosystem
- Reservoir construction and operation in relation to environmental flows
- Determining flow/ecology relationships
- Working with little data
- Getting stakeholder buy-in
- Linking socioeconomic factors to environmental flows
- Case studies
More information, including a call for abstracts will be provided on this site at a later date. Please check back.
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