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This action aimed at the recovery of tidal dynamics, marshland areas and restoration of other areas for traditional agricultural use. Recuperation of 25ha of marshes over agricultural lands.
The public perception of ecosystems (e.g. forests, including possibly protecting ones) is strongly worsened following floods with massive wood jams. This case study aims at performing a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of a Mediterranean catchment to assess NBS benefits, dis-benefits and co-benefits and ways to optimize them. The NAIAD project will help to better understand what occurred in details and in which extend Nature-Based Solutions may help to improve the situation.
The mountains located near the French Mediterranean coast are regularly subject to severe rainfalls, and consequently to torrential floods. On 3rd, Oct. 2015, a dramatic flood occurred in the region between Cannes and Nice (twenty peoples died, 550-650M€ of losses). Three rivers experience particularly dramatic floods in 2015: the Riou de l’Argentière (47 km², mountainous basin); the Frayères (22 km², rural headwaters, urban lowlands); the Brague (68 km², rural and forested basin, urban lowlands).
The Serchio River Basin is defined as a basin of national interest according to Italian law. It has been identified as a ‘river basin district’ for implementing the EU’s Water Framework Directive. The unique combination of challenges that are present includes extreme drought and flooding, seismic risk as well as water pollution.
The Serchio River Basin is defined as a basin of national interest according to Italian law. It has been identified as a ‘river basin district’ for implementing the EU’s Water Framework Directive. The unique combination of challenges that are present includes extreme drought and flooding, seismic risk as well as water pollution.
The Serchio River Basin is defined as a basin of national interest according to Italian law. It has been identified as a ‘river basin district’ for implementing the EU’s Water Framework Directive. The unique combination of challenges that are present includes extreme drought and flooding, seismic risk as well as water pollution.
In Romania, the official statements recognize the importance of afforestation and one important objective of the National Afforestation Programme (2004) and the Forest Code (2008) was the afforestation of 2 million hectares of degraded lands. Moreover, the Law no. 100 /2010 regarding the afforestation of degraded lands was a new reinforcement of that ambitious objective, but the new versions of the National Afforestation Programme from 2010 and 2013 altered successively the target from 2 million hectares to 422 thousand hectares, respectively to 229 thousand hectares.
"Testing the feasibility of a green infrastructure, instead of a traditional grey infrastructure, to treat sewage overflows, and investigating the multiple benefits that the green infrastructure provides and its relevance for water management."
Potential impacts/benefits:
- Improved management of water resources for the benefit of people and biodiversity.
- Providing evidence that green infrastructures, besides complying with the existing water regulations, provide additional services.
Increasing ecosystem service provision by creating multifunctional blue-green infrastructure.Due to the key role of the multifunctional flood reservoir in the development of a new perspective in water management and flood prevention, the project aims to be recognised as a good practice example not only in the Ljubljana Urban Region but also in Slovenia.The flood reservoir Podutik has been redesigned into a multifunctional flood reservoir that provides a broad range of ecosystem services through the integration of nature-based technologies (Eco Technologies).
"Traditional land use (agriculture and forestry) is being abandoned in the Alps due to socioeconomic changes, while an increasingly larger area is being used for tourism and infrastructure, which requires protection from natural hazards.Forests provide permanent protective functions, but only if they are properly and sustainably managed.