Management of rivers & wetlands at catchment scale in Europe Bart Fokkens, RIZA, NL. Chairman ECRR 1
RIZA: National Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment NL Ministry of Transport Public Works and Watermanagement Wetland Restoration & Development 2
ECRR: EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR RIVER RESTORATION MISSION Enhance: Ecological river restoration throughout Europe. 3
VISION RR is an integral part of sustainable water management ECRR is connecting people and organizations working on river restoration (network / platform) ECRR supports development of good practices of river restoration 4
ESSENTIAL ACTIVITIES Promotion ECRR Network and functions Website: www.ecrr.org Newsletters (electronic) Conferences, study tours Workshops, training courses etc. External networking Polls the user to identify the function of the networks 5
NATIONAL CENTRES / NETWORKS United Kingdom Denmark Finland Spain Belgium Romania Russian Federation Italy The Netherlands Who is next? Network users: 200 organisations, institutions and individuals, alltogetheter thousands of people. 6
CONFERENCES 7
RIVER FUNCTIONS AND CONFLICTS 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% East-E. West-E. North-E. South-E. nature fishery safety against flooding shipping water supply irrigation drinking water hydropower 8
NORTHERN EUROPE Boreal conditions Hydropower and dams Recreational use vs economic vs natural 9
EASTERN EUROPE Water and sediment pollution Flood protection Natural resources 10
WESTERN EUROPE Habitat degradation and fragmentation Flood protection Economics vs Nature 11
SOUTHERN EUROPE Hydropower and dams Water shortage Modification of discharge patterns Pollution 12
FRAMEWORK EU Water FD EU Bird/Habitat D EU Nitrate D EU Groundwater D CBD Ramsar Convention Helsinki Convention Specific Basin Conv. 13
WFD + NATURA 2000 WFD: Ecosystems water quality standards! Spatial coherence and integrity is missing Groundwater habitats ignored WFD is integrated towards the catchment Ramsar Convention is integrated towards the ecosystem 14
RESTORATION AND FLOOD PREVENTION (NL) 15
RIVER RHINE THE NETHERLANDS 16
RESTORED FLOODPLAIN 17
16 CM WATER LEVEL DECREASE (LOCALLY) 18
FLOODPLAIN RESTORATION (NL) 19
DUTCH NATIONAL PLAN River restoration Flood prevention Implementation EU WFD Increase nature Increase socio-economy Increase socio-culture 2.2 billion Ready2015 20
REFERENCE STUDY PECHORA RIVER (RF) 1500 km 12 salmonid species North Paleo-arctic flyway RIZA 21
RHINE DELTA / PECHORA DELTA 22
REFERENCE THE DANUBE DELTA (RO) 500.000 ha Unesco Man and Biosphere Reserve Green Danube Corridor Floodprevention 23
DANUBE RIVER BASIN 24
LOWER VOLGA RIVER MORPHOLOGY (RF) 25
LOWER VOLGA 26
VOLGOGRAD RIVER MORPHOLOGY (RF) 27
CANALISED RIVER DINKEL (NL) 28
RESTORED RIVER DINKEL (NL) 29
DON RIVER (RF) 30
RESERVOIRS, ROSION, SPRINGFLOODS (RF) 31
SUSTAINABLE USE, THE ILOVLA RIVER (RF) 32
RESTORATION IN THE URALS (RF) water quality badly affected by mining agriculture metallurgical industries untreated waste water dams 33
NEW PERIOD NEW SYMBOL 34
POTENTIAL RETENTION AREA (NL) 35
RETENTION AREA (NL) 13 June 2006 LIFE3 Technical Conference, 36
RETENTION AREA LANDSCAPE 37
HABITAT DEVELOPMENT 38
COMORANT POPULATION DEVELOPMENT 20000 10000 0 Oostvaarders plassen Naardermeer Lepelaarpla ssen De Ven Kreupel 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 39
POPULATION DEVELOPMENT/CONTROL? 40
SAVA RIVER BASIN RETENTION AREA & UNESCO HERITAGE SITE (HR) Transboundary co-operation International Co-operation 41
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION 42