river restoration, monitoring and applied research in sweden
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River restoration, monitoring and applied research in Sweden
Swedish Agency for Marine and WaterManagement (SWAM)
Fredrik Nordwall
Mårten Gustafsson
Erik Årnfelt
State of Play:
Restoration in focus» EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 Bringing nature back into our lives
• Contains overall guidelines and targets for river restoration
(Target: 25000 km free flowing water within EU)
» FN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-30
Aims to massively scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems as
a proven measure to fight the climate crisis and enhance food security, water supply
and biodiversity.
» EU Water Directors meeting in Helsinki 2019
• The EU Commission underlined the importance of River Restoration as a means
to reach the Water Framework Directive (WFD) objectives, and ….
Foto Mattias Ibbe
Länsstyrelsen Östergötland
Restauration or rehabilitation?
» Academic issues. We use
restoration as it is given in
ordinates to SWAM, EU and in
UN-documents.
» Operates on different levels and
scales.
Swedish Freshwater habitats listed in the Habitats
Directive, and their overall assessments in the
different biogeographical regions in 2013 and 2019,
respectively. ALP = alpine, BOR = boreal, and CON
= continental region. Green = favourable, yellow =
inadequate, red = unfavourable, and white =
unknown conservation status. Symbols without a
sign indicate a stable trend, = positive, = negative,
x = unknown trend.
• Habitat 3210 and 3260 – small and large
water courses…
• Inadequate status and negative trends:
-Waterpower – impacts (regulated rivers)
-Many if not most, former log driving routes
-Water extractions
-Road crosses
-Climate change
- etc
Restoration measures within Natura 2000 (i.e.
LIFE) and other protected areas have slowed or
reversed the negative trends for some species
and habitats.
WHY? Assessments of
conservation status (Article 17
reporting 2019)
National Strategy
Regional Actions plans
Projects
Measures
Establishing a conceptual framework for actions
Legal guidance
Knowledge-platform
Strategy/Action plan
FundingLOVA, LONA, FVM 1:11,
Natur1:3, LIFE, EMFF
ProcessGovernance
Numerous of plans in place:• NAP
• Ecosystembased management
• Action programs endangeredspedies
• Green infrastructure
• Protected areas
• RBMP:s
• Plan for liming
• CAP
No more plans required, moreactions, improved coordination.
Register of
measures
(Database)
Effect
Assessment
Monitoring
Reporting
Env.objectiv.
EU WFD
EU HD
Helcom
Government
RBMP:S
Time horisonts
Days----Months-----------1 year--------------3 years---------------6 years-------------12 years-------1 generation
Workplans
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Workplans
Workplans
Project (site level)
Project (site level)Project (site
level)
National Strategy
Collective Action plan watershed
Collective Action Plan - Watershed
Ecosystem-
based
fisheries
management
Valuable
nature
Fisheries
management
associations
SAPLiming
Natura 2000
–
conservation
plan
EMP
Nutrient
loads
Outdoor
activities
Formally
Protected
areas
Water-
resources
Hydropower
production
Four critical corner-stones:» Strategy:
• Long-term goals and priorities
• Linking together current legislative areas and strategies
• Cooperation (authorities and performers)
» Guidelines• Legal framework for funding (lacking today, yearly basis)
• Actions through law regulation (PPP) or Nature conservation (state funding)
» Knowledge-platform• Best practice
• Upodated review of current knowledge
• Cooperation
» Funding
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Funding
Funding and reporting is of crucial importance
tools for implementation.
» Effective funding requires:
• Long-term decisions
• Resilience
• Predictability
» Management by objectives rather than detailed
reporting and indicators.
Funding for restoration freshwater 2015-2020 (SEK)
Funding as a strategicframework
» Current situation: scatter plot of projectsacross the country (Priorities?)
» CAB:s applies for funding of projects on an ad hoc basis (at the end of the year☺)
» Long-term projects lacking - except LIFE or EMFF
» Administrative excesses, IT-support system lacking
» Functional assessment of progress is lacking (focus on economy, object level)
2020-11-2011
R & D and itsorganisation
» Small bodies involved => difficulties in
building knowledge and coordinating
» Many organisations and authorities
involved
» Adaptive management of restoration
actions
» More effective management (institutional
structures)
Cluster?
CAB:s
Consultants
SwAM
NGO (Sportfiskarna)
Stakeholders
Universities(SLU)
Muncipalities
R & D - Applied research in the field of river restoration
» Basic coorperation – SLU Aqua/SSPIC (5 years agreement) : ~5 MSEK/year ( Tot. ~ 120
MSEK/year)
» The Environmental research fund (SEPA/SWAM) –2-3 MSEK/year (Tot ~ 95 MSEK/year)
» Other Universities (Short term contracts) – UMU (~ 1 Msek/year)
» Grants to research bodies – i.e. Energiforsk (~ 2 MSEK/year)
R & D - Applied research in the field of river restoration
» Basic cooperation/”Help desk” –
SLU Aqua/SSPIC (5 years agreement) :
~5 MSEK/year ( Tot. ~ 120 MSEK/year)
R & D - Applied research in the field of river restoration
The Environmental research fund (SEPA/SWAM) –2 MSEK/year (Tot ~ 95 MSEK/year)
R & D - Applied research in the field of river restoration
» Other Universities (Short term contracts when needed) – (~ 1 Msek/year)
R & D - Applied research in the field of river restoration
Grants to research bodies –
i.e. Energiforsk
(~ 2 MSEK/year 2020-2022)
Further and ongoing workin freshwater systems
» Habitat restoration (i.e. migration barriers, timber floating lanes) in running waters ongoing and
forthcoming in several large LIFE projects (ReBORN, Rivers of Life, Ecostreams etc..). More habitat
restoration projects in freshwaters ongoing in Sweden than ever.
» Developing Guidelines for catchment specific programmes of measures.
» Development of assessement methodologies (LIFE IP RW ws).
» Revising conservation plans (N2000/Nature reserves)