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Environment and Society

There is urgent need for knowledge and innovative solutions to meet the environmental and societal challenges posed by demand for more hydropower production, increased environmental consideration and changes to riverine ecosystems caused by ongoing and expected climate change.

This work package will focus on the following themes:

  • Environmental impact expected from future operational patterns of hydropower to meet demands for short-term variation in electricity to balance output in other renewables and how the impacts of hydropower can be mitigated in cost effective ways.
  • New environmental requirements and the effects of these on hydropower’s ability as a producer of renewable energy.
  • Effects of climate change on riverine ecosystems and the interactive environmental effects of climate change and hydropower operation.
Project
  • Ongoing project
  • Completed projects

Digital twins of regulated river stretches

Ecohydraulic flows in shallow waterways with large bed rougness

Ecological status of riparian habitat in relation to hydropeaking in winter

Floods for riparian biodiversity in regulated rivers

Machine learning to improve eel passage design

Using machine learning for improved eel downstream passage design

Experimental methods to predict riparian vegetation responses to environmental flows in regulated rivers

Morphological measurements to promote biodiversity in hydropeaking reservoirs

Hydraulic analysis of technical solutions for improved connectivity at hydropower dams

Digital twins of regulated river stretches coupling hydraulic modelling with individual-based models for fish populations to perform environmental flow assessment

Uncovering causes of salmon recovery in a hydropower regulated river – a new modeling approach

Environmental design for rehabilitation of regulated lakes and reservoirs

Economic valuation of benefits from environmental improvements: investigating threshold and interaction effects

Verification of individual-based models for population-level analysis and development of demogenetics models in hydropower-regulated rivers

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Andreas Larsson

Environment and Society

08-677 27 60

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