120509 iasi restore - toni scarr
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Presentation of the international project RESTORE, a partnership for sharing knowledge and promoting best practice on river restoration in Europe.TRANSCRIPT
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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
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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
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RESTORE countries
Regional LeadsN – Finland (SYKE),E – Netherlands/ Romania
(DLG),S – Italy (CIRF),W – UK (RRC).
Remaining countries via wider media &
communication.
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3 years ‐
3 stages
• information collection and collation.
• engagement.
• knowledge transfer.
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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
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EU RIVER BASINS
6Delivering River Restoration:
Recipes for Success
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ECO REGIONS
7Delivering River Restoration:
Recipes for Success
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Crossing through 10 countries & draining the territory of 19 countries, the Danube is the most international river in the world.
The Lower Danube
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ? ? ? ? ? ?
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Delivering River Basin Planning
• We are mainly in the investigation stage
• Delivering through water company water quality improvements
• Fish passage
• Your experience?
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What do we mean by river restoration?
Before After
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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?
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Conflicting Drivers
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Catchment PlanningHow to do it ?
Planned approach
Stakeholder input
Spatial scale
Multiple sites
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Catchment Pilots
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Ladywell
fields
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Last ten years
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Green infrastructure
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•
visits increased by 73%
•
People stay longer
•
Total time spent in the park increased
•
28% of people started visiting only recently
Following
improvements
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Replacing lost space – flood risk management on the River Rhine
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Toolbox of measures
13‐5‐2012 30Delivering River Restoration:
Recipes for Success
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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
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Nature Like By Passes
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Urban stream restoration
13‐5‐2012
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As restore we are looking to reach other sectors. Can our planning system deliver river restoration?
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Are ecosystem services the answer?
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Social & health benefits of a quality environment
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Funding river restoration ?
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CASE STUDIES ?!
The RESTORE database of river restoration projects is currently being developed
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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
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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?
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www.restorerivers.eu
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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)