Scarr A. UK EA, River Restoration Best Practices
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1. Environmental conditions in European rivers 2. River restoration 3. Status of river restoration in Europe 4. RESTORE Project review of EU policy drivers 5. Obstacles to river restoration implementation 6. Consensus on river restoration best practices as a means to support delivery of European policy goals 7. Solutions and way forward
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Scarr A. UK EA, River Restoration Best Practices
- 1. River Restoration Best Practices: Important tools to enhance river management and works in partnership with The RESTORE project is made possible with the contribution of the LIFE+ financial instrument of the European Community
Editor's Notes
- Why s this important? Threat to biodiversity - Threat to quality of life - Loss of the ecosystem services that have (potential) value - Loss of opportunity for cost effective solutions to other water management challenges – water quality, flood risk management, ecotourism etc - In some parts of Europe threat to traditional land-use systems and (at least partly) livelihood of local communities. At present large number of European rivers are failing to achieve GES as required by the WFD due to hydromorphology. This is the reason RESTORE project was developed. The challenge is to better manage existing ecosystems but also to reverse degradation and partly or fully restore ecosystems – and link/connect to the next slide.
- Why RR? What do we try to achieve? How?
- Must tackle what river restoration is and what it can achieve here. RR in Europe is typically single site, single funder and single policy driven which results in narrower range of benefits and smaller scale of impact. There’s increasing range of policy drivers which contribute to flood risk reduction, to increased biodiversity, climate change adaptation… Recent policy shifts require a larger-scale more holistic and integrated approach to restoration
- … a review of drivers that promote complex and integrated forms of floodplain and catchment river restoration A range of EU Directives or national legislation / policies and implementation programmes led to an actual demand for river restoration tools and techniques and these can be generally grouped into two categories – see above Drivers - they drive the delivery of RR because restoration offers a means of meeting the objective of the Directive ior policy Supporters - they support delivery of RR through wider environmental improvements
- Cut or at least reorientate to present the 3 solutions
- Step/Stage 1 – Collection and collation of information: to address the need to understand and promote best practice in RR across Europe by providing communication platform
- Step/Stage 1 – Collection and collation of information: to address the need to understand and promote best practice in RR across Europe by providing communication platform