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RESTORE
The RESTORE project is made possible with the contribution of the LIFE+
financial instrument of the European Community
partnership for sharing knowledge & promoting best practice on river restoration in Europe
and works in partnership with
RESTORE is implemented by 7 partners:
• Environment Agency ‐
England and Wales,
• UK River Restoration Centre (RRC),
• Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE),
• Italian River Restoration Centre (CIRF),
• Dutch Gov’t
Service for Land and Water Management
• Wetlands International
• NIHWM ‐
Romania
RESTORE
Partners
RESTORE countries
Regional LeadsN – Finland (SYKE),E – Netherlands/ Romania
(DLG),S – Italy (CIRF),W – UK (RRC).
Remaining countries via wider media &
communication.
3 years ‐
3 stages
• information collection and collation.
• engagement.
• knowledge transfer.
2009 EU COMMON IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY HYDROMORPHOLOGY
• Urgent need to collate information on river restoration
• Develop good practices ecological effectiveness• Develop good practice on costs/benefits • How to include in IRBM plans
• Develop further information sharing
• Develop knowledge transfer capacities on river restoration
EU RIVER BASINS
6Delivering River Restoration:
Recipes for Success
ECO REGIONS
7Delivering River Restoration:
Recipes for Success
Crossing through 10 countries & draining the territory of 19 countries, the Danube is the most international river in the world.
The Lower Danube
Human Pressures
80 % rivers with alterations
• Water quality 59 %
• Hydrology
41 %
• Morphology 38 %
• Connectivity 85 %
• Multi impacted
47 %
• Low land rivers
90 %
15 criteria
9330 sample sites
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• Widespread decline in river ecosystems across Europe
• < 20% of European rivers in their natural physical state
• Do European drivers give us all the policies we need?
Is European policy helping to deliver river restoration?
RESTORE Project review of EU policy drivers
• Those which drive the delivery of river & catchment restoration, e.g. WFD, Habitats and Birds Directive, Floods Directive
• Those which support the delivery of river restoration, e.g. CAP, Nitrates Directive
River Restoration Drivers• Traditional drivers
– Legislation – Policy
• New drivers
– Flood risk management
– Climate change
– Urban development
– Tourism and recreation development
– New technologies
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obstacles to river restoration implementation
Policy‐
inflexibility
‐
alignment of multiple policies
Financial‐
limited funding
‐
funding arrangements
Societal‐
Institutional and
administrative boundaries‐
(lack of) capacity building
‐
lack of understanding‐
stakeholder involvement
Spatial planning‐
agricultural land use and
practices‐
multiple and competing
floodplain uses
Land use‐
requirement to purchase land
‐
land use change / planning
Other‐
promotion of hydropower
schemes‐
water quality
‐
time scale
WFD Timetable
• 2000 Directive into force• 2008 Draft IRBM Plan• 2009 IRBM Plan + Plan of
Measures • 2010 Introduce pricing
policies• 2012 Operational Plan of
Measures• 2015 Meet environmental
objectives; first cycle• 2021 Second cycle• 2027 Third cycle
Member State (MS)
Good Status 2009
Good Status 2015
Change in Good Status
Area of Member State (km2)
Population of Member State3
Population density of MS (pe/ km2)
Bulgaria 37% 88% +51% 110 994 7.5 M 68 Czech Rep 12% 14% +2% 78 866 10.4 M 132 Estonia 55% 75% +20% 45 227 1.3 M 29 France 40% 67% +27% 543 965 62.3 M 115 Germany 22% 29% +7% 357 027 82.2 M 230 Ireland 44% 81% +37% 70 182 4.5 M 64 Netherlands 4% 20% +16% 41 864 16.6 M 397 UK 24% 37% +13% 242 514 61.6 M 254 Romania ? ? ? ? ? ?
Delivering River Basin Planning
• We are mainly in the investigation stage
• Delivering through water company water quality improvements
• Fish passage
• Your experience?
What do we mean by river restoration?
Before After
Historically single site, single funder and single policy driven• Narrower range of benefits• Smaller scale of impact
Increasing range of relevant EU policy drivers e.g.• Water Framework Directive • Floods Directive• Habitats and Birds Directive
More recently increasing landscape scale approaches• Multiple benefits
What is the approach in the western Europe?
Conflicting Drivers
Catchment PlanningHow to do it ?
Planned approach
Stakeholder input
Spatial scale
Multiple sites
Catchment Pilots
Ladywell
fields
Last ten years
Green infrastructure
•
visits increased by 73%
•
People stay longer
•
Total time spent in the park increased
•
28% of people started visiting only recently
Following
improvements
Replacing lost space – flood risk management on the River Rhine
Toolbox of measures
13‐5‐2012 30Delivering River Restoration:
Recipes for Success
Thematic Approach in Northern Region
Restoration constructed rivers
• Removing dams
• Construction fish passes
• Construction of habitat compensation
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National Strategy for fish passes In Finland
Nature Like By Passes
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Urban stream restoration
13‐5‐2012
As restore we are looking to reach other sectors. Can our planning system deliver river restoration?
Are ecosystem services the answer?
Social & health benefits of a quality environment
Funding river restoration ?
CASE STUDIES ?!
The RESTORE database of river restoration projects is currently being developed
www.restorerivers.eu 40
RESTORE Outputs
• 36 events in over 10 countries
• 1200 persons engaged through events
• 500 case studies on the WIKI case studies database
• 90,000 persons through project outreach
• International River Restoration Conference
www.restorerivers.eurestore@environment-agency.gov.uk
Questions
• What do you regard as the principal policy drivers for river restoration in your country and why? E.g. Water Framework Directive, Habitats and Birds, Floods Directive; Land Use Planning, Common Agricultural Policy.
• In general what do you regard as the main obstacles, to delivering river restoration?
• And what are the opportunities to support you delivering and promoting river restoration?
www.restorerivers.eu
What would you like to see on the RESTORE Website Relating to the
Themes? please pick two
• Economics• Flood risk management• Biodiversity and habitats• Social benefits• Land use management (forestry/ agriculture
/fisheries)• Spatial planning• Hydropower (renewable energy)