Rediscovering the value of urban rivers

Everard, Mark; Moggridge, Helen L.

doi:10.1007/s11252-011-0174-7

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“…In an urban context, rivers have been pervasively modified for various uses and to reduce flood risks [2,3]. This development has resulted in severe ecological dysfunctions described as the "urban stream syndrome", which is characterized by flashier hydrography, elevated concentrations of nutrients and contaminants, altered channel morphology, reduced biotic richness, and increased dominance of tolerant species [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

Societal Drivers of European Water Governance: A Comparison of Urban River Restoration Practices in France and Germany

Zingraff‐Hamed

Greulich

Wantzen

et al. 2017

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Abstract:The European water governance took a decisive turn with the formulation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), which demands the restoration of all water bodies that did not achieve sufficient ecological status. Urban rivers are particularly impaired by human activities and their restorations are motivated by multiple ecological and societal drivers, such as requirements of laws and legislation, and citizen needs for a better quality of life. In this study we investigated the relative influence of socio-political and socio-cultural drivers on urban river restorations by comparing projects of different policy contexts and cultural norms to cross-fertilize knowledge. A database of 75 projects in French and German major cities was compiled to apply (a) a comparative statistical analysis of main project features, i.e., motivation, goals, measures, morphological status, and project date; and (b) a qualitative textual analysis on project descriptions and titles. The results showed that despite a powerful European directive, urban river restoration projects still keep national specificities. The WFD drives with more intensity German, rather than French, urban river restoration. This study showed the limits of macro-level governance and the influence of micro-level governance driven by societal aspects such as nature perception and relationships between humans and rivers.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Societal Drivers of European Water Governance: A Comparison of Urban River Restoration Practices in France and Germany

Zingraff‐Hamed

Greulich

Wantzen

et al. 2017

Water

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“…There is an extensive literature that describes these impacts, e.g. (Barker et al, 1998;Everard and Moggridge, 2012). However, to date cost accounting has not been fully embraced in this conceptual understanding, e.g.…”

Section: Urban-groundwater Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accounting for groundwater in future city visions

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A B S T R A C TCity planners, urban innovators and researchers are increasingly working on 'future city' initiatives to investigate the physical, social and political aspects of harmonized urban living. Despite this, sustainability principles and the importance of urban groundwater are lacking in future city visions. Using London as a case study, the importance of groundwater for cities is highlighted and a range of future city interventions may impact on groundwater are reviewed. Using data from water resource plans and city planning strategies, changes in the groundwater balance which may occur as a result of city interventions are calculated for two future city scenarios: a 'strategic' future informed by organisational policy and an 'aspirational' future guided by sustainability principles. For London, under a strategic future, preferential investment in industry-scale technologies such as wastewater treatment and groundwater storage would occur. Acknowledgement that behaviour change offers the potential for a faster rate of transformation than innovation technologies is ignored. The capacity of community-led action and smart-home technologies to deliver sustainable water use under an aspirational future is evident, with a measurable impact on urban groundwater. These methods may be used to inform city interventions that consider the social context in addition to environmental constraints and business drivers.

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“…The balance of it is important to protect, enhance, or restore ecosystems. It should be assessed across the wide range of riparian ecosystem services to deliver tangible and quantifiable value of societal interests [8]. Therefore, the consideration of human preferences and behaviors is an important component of the science behind sustainable planning [9].…”

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A topology of residents’ based on preferences for sustainable riparian settlement in Palembang, Indonesia

2017

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Abstract. The riparian function as an ecosystem service is very important. However, town planning with the sustainable of ecological riparian approach is often in conflict with public interest. Planner needs to harmonize planning with community preference. Several studies show that conjoint analysis is capable of capturing public opinion as part of town planning. In this paper, in addition to residential preference research, a topology of resident profiles was also identified. This study demonstrates that sample size can break the overall average results into particular group characteristics. The analyses are composed through two-step approach. First, cluster analysis to categorize residents as their preference settlements and conjoint analysis to know the ideal settlement to each group. There are 150 respondents in a slum settlements of Musi River in Palembang, Indonesia. The cluster analysis identifies four respondent groups and all of them prefer house building as the very important attributes rather than residential environment attributes.

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Rediscovering the value of urban rivers

Cited by 154 publications

References 46 publications

Societal Drivers of European Water Governance: A Comparison of Urban River Restoration Practices in France and Germany

Societal Drivers of European Water Governance: A Comparison of Urban River Restoration Practices in France and Germany

Accounting for groundwater in future city visions

A topology of residents’ based on preferences for sustainable riparian settlement in Palembang, Indonesia

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