Water Framework Directive programmes of measures: Lessons from the 1st planning cycle of a catchment in England
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While the WFD was adopted to succeed and replace management practices targeting individually non-compliant element, findings indicate that little had changed in the way measures were developed, which makes the case for what it was introduced for.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2019-06-10 and is currently open access. It has received 28 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Water Framework Directive & River basin management plans.read more
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Improving river hydromorphological assessment through better integration of riparian vegetation: Scientific evidence and guidelines
Marta González del Tánago,Vanesa Martínez-Fernández,Francisca C. Aguiar,Walter Bertoldi,Simon Dufour,Diego García de Jalón,Virginia Garófano-Gómez,Dejan Mandzukovski,Patricia María Rodríguez-González +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the relevance of riparian vegetation for river hydromorphology, focusing on its contribution to streamflow and sediment regime conditions, is reviewed and synthesized, and the authors present promising approaches for the characterization and assessment of vegetation units and indicators at multiple scales to support management and restoration measures.
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Implementing the Water Framework Directive and Tackling Diffuse Pollution from Agriculture: Lessons from England and Scotland
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to tackle diffuse pollution from agriculture in the European Union's Water Framework Directive (WFD) by using water sampling and water sampling techniques.
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Filling the Gap between Ecosystem Services Concept and River Basin Management Plans: The Case of Greece in WFD 20+
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the knowledge of ecosystem services (ES) that lies within the River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) in Greece so as to further depict their representation in relevant planning tools, to support policy making and express the implementation experience to Member States for assisting EU reloading processes.
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Programmes of Measures under the Water Framework Directive - A Comparative Case Study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined three water management measures for river basins in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, with a focus on the differences in how the programmes direct the authorities' activities with regard to water management.
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Assessing the feasibility and value of employing an ecosystem services approach in chemical environmental risk assessment under the Water Framework Directive.
A. Ross Brown,Stuart Marshall,Christopher B. Cooper,Paul Whitehouse,Paul J. Van den Brink,Jack H. Faber,Lorraine Maltby +6 more
TL;DR: The feasibility and added value of an ecosystem services approach in retrospective environmental risk assessment were evaluated using a site-specific case study in a lowland UK river, which failed to achieve good ecological status temporarily in 2018 due to the exceedance of the environmental quality standard for zinc.
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Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of The Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a Framework for Community Action in the Field of Water Policy (Water Framework Directive)
TL;DR: The declaration of the Ministerial Seminar on groundwater held at The Hague in 1991 recognised the need for action to avoid long-term deterioration of freshwater quality and quantity and called for a programme of actions to be implemented by the year 2000 aiming at sustainable management and protection of freshwater resources as discussed by the authors.
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The European Water Framework Directive at the age of 10: A critical review of the achievements with recommendations for the future
Daniel Hering,Ángel Borja,Jacob Carstensen,Laurence Carvalho,Michael Elliott,Christian K. Feld,Anna-Stiina Heiskanen,Richard K. Johnson,Jannicke Moe,Didier Pont,Anne Lyche Solheim,Wouter van de Bund +11 more
TL;DR: The successes and problems encountered with implementation of the WFD over the past 10 years are reviewed and recommendations to further improve the implementation process are provided.
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Three hundred ways to assess Europe's surface waters: An almost complete overview of biological methods to implement the Water Framework Directive
Sebastian Birk,Wendy Bonne,Ángel Borja,Sandra Brucet,Anne Courrat,Sandra Poikane,Angelo G. Solimini,Wouter van de Bund,Nikolaos Zampoukas,Daniel Hering +9 more
TL;DR: An overview of 297 assessment methods for the status of European surface waters is presented, based on a questionnaire survey addressing authorities in all countries implementing the WFD, and the strength of relationships differed significantly between organism groups and water categories.
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The Myths of Restoration Ecology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that human actions both intentionally and unwittingly alter the goods and services of many ecosystems on which we rely, and by entering into this relationship of altering ecosystems, we incur responsibility to our neighbors and to future generations.
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Navigating towards sustainable development: A system dynamics approach
TL;DR: It is argued that, in order to understand the sources of and the solutions to modern problems, linear and mechanistic thinking must give way to non-linear and organic thinking, more commonly referred to as systems thinking, which operates in a whole-system fashion.