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Status of and Perspectives on River Restoration in Europe: 310,000 Euros per Hectare of Restored River
- Source :
- Sustainability; Volume 10; Issue 1; Pages: 129, Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 1, p 129 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018.
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Abstract
- The purpose of the present research was to analyze the available data on river restoration projects in Europe. As the framework of our study, we conducted a structured international survey. We asked selected entities and experts from among those responsible for river restoration in European countries about the details and costs of European Union river restoration projects. We examined 119 river restoration projects that were implemented in Europe between 1989 and 2016; during the collection of data, some of the projects were still ongoing. Based upon the collected data we observed that the number of river restoration projects has been increasing since 1989, which expresses society’s growing interest in improving the quality of aquatic environments. We revealed that 56% of these European river restoration projects have been implemented by dedicated entities and stakeholders, not as part of any structured, larger-scale river restoration policy. This indicates that most European countries do not have integrated plans for river restoration. Our analysis showed that 52% of the projects analyzed have been designed and implemented without the participation of local stakeholders. It also showed that the budgets for river restoration projects did not differ significantly across various time horizons from 1989 to 2016. In our study, the average cost of restoring 1 ha of an European river was 310,000 euros (EUR). Considering these projects’ permanent assets and including their amortization, we calculated the average unit price of a river restoration’s value in terms of ecosystem meta-service to be 7757 EUR·ha−1·year−1.
- Subjects :
- restoration
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
river
lcsh:TJ807-830
Geography, Planning and Development
lcsh:Renewable energy sources
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
01 natural sciences
Ecosystem services
Water Framework Directive
ecosystem
management
ecosystem services
media_common.cataloged_instance
European union
Hectare
lcsh:Environmental sciences
Average cost
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
lcsh:GE1-350
biology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Unit price
business.industry
lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants
Environmental resource management
Euros
biology.organism_classification
lcsh:TD194-195
Geography
Amortization
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability; Volume 10; Issue 1; Pages: 129
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....807edf4eaa0924df469a1f9bd85358dd
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su10010129