Hugo Pimentel Tavares

Wasserstein distributional distance and linear programming convergence planning as monitoring network benchmarking tools: cross-continental surface water quality assessment across Brazilian and European river basins

Abstract Evaluating the performance of long-term water quality monitoring networks against international reference systems requires analytical tools capable of comparing entire empirical distributions — not merely summary statistics — yet distributional benchmarking methods have...

A replicable six-method framework for quantifying legislative efficacy in surface water quality governance: evidence from four decades of monitoring in ten São Paulo River Basins, Brazil (1978–2026)

Abstract Surface water quality governance in developing economies frequently fails to reverse long-term deterioration despite successive legislative interventions, yet rigorous quantitative evaluation of policy effectiveness at the basin scale remains rare. This study applies a t...