Advancing freshwater restoration

Look at the Danube River Basin – shared by 19 countries – and degraded by unsustainable exploitation, pollution, and climate change. Various restoration projects attack different aspects… how can they be more successful?

That was the focus of Helmut Habersack when he participated in a panel at the EU Horizon Europe Mission: Restore our Oceans and Waters by 2030 Danube and Black Sea Lighthouse Launching Event in Bucharest earlier this month.  
As a leader in the DANUBE4all ~ EU Project project and a partner in EcoAdvance (Horizon Europe), he shared insights on making projects successful and how success may be different under different climate, cultural and ecological conditions. EcoAdvance is identifying the key factors that contribute to the success of freshwater ecosystem restoration initiatives – and how they may be different in different EU countries.

To share your ideas on success and freshwater ecosystem restoration, register at: https://lnkd.in/df5niGJp 

#freshwaterecosystemrestoration #Danubelighthouse #danube4all #EcoDali

There are many ways to manage a freshwater ecosystem, and a team at the University of Malta has tested an ingenious way that could have significant applications beyond the first successful experiments they are completing this month.
                                                                         
Using standard #seismic data that most Member States collect routinely, they can evaluate the state of their aquifers. They analyse the ambient seismic noise to understand the changes in the groundwater level. One key advantage of this method is that they can analyse decades of seismic data to possibly see the impacts of climate change on the supply of drinking water and how to weigh the tradeoffs between current aquifer recharge, environmental constraints, saltwater intrusion and potential aquifer contamination. 
 
The team Prof. Sebastiano D'Amico, Prof. Pauline Galea , and Dr Matthew Agius, has lots of ideas for further developments and are interested in being in touch with others who have experience or interest in this innovative pathway.
 
Another Showcase of PEOPLE working to advance freshwater ecosystem restoration – funded by The Energy and Water Agency, working together with national governments to help science service policy.
 
Join them at https://ecoadvance.eu/ – where focus is on the PEOPLE making a difference!

The Ecosystem services approach and natural cost accounting is helping quantify success by translating costs and benefits into monetary terms.

Is that the best measure?

Prof. Jerry Davis (Prof. of Business Administration and Sociology at the University of Michigan) suggests we might be in a better place if we don’t allow Finance to be the master metaphor for how we view the world.

So while we champion progress in considering ecosystem services provided by our environment in monetary terms, let’s ask ourselves: Does further "financializing" our environment allow us to ignore meeting human needs that can't be quantified in Euros?”

How do YOU measure success?

Let us know!

Share your ideas in the comments below???? Tag someone you consider a success who is contributing to freshwater restoration in your country.

Register now on our website: https://lnkd.in/df5niGJp 
 
#freshwater #ecosystemrestoration #biodiversity

SELINA (Horizon Europe) has just started its workshop focusing on seeds of change.

Seeds of change are examples of successful and innovative projects and initiatives integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services at a systemic level. The aim of SELINA is to find and connect such seeds of change so they trigger transformative change.
 
An example from the workshop – the cooling effect of green surfaces on urban heat islands, caused by artificial surfaces, is being measured with measuring heat radiation with a drone!
 
EcoAdvance (Horizon Europe) is trying something similar by finding and connecting examples of successful and innovative freshwater ecosystem restoration projects and identifying the people who make difference in their countries and enable success in #FreshwaterRestoration.
 
Ildikó Arany (Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary), participating in the SELINA workshop will be integrating the two thinking processes and leveraging both approaches to bring the greening of Europe into focus.
 
Looking forward to the last 2 days of the workshop!
 
Learn more about the workshop and the SELINA project: https://lnkd.in/en7mtVua 

Global Water Summit happens in New York at the UN!

It's an opportunity to merge with the power of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the world-wide effort to push serious accountability for lofty restoration goals.
Organized by the University of Évora, the Society for Ecological Restoration and Water4All.

You can join right from your desk!                                                        
The focus is on building synergies with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
It's an opportunity to be heard in the interactive audience dialog.

Hear the voices of Europe: Panagiotis Balabanis, Helge Elisabeth Zeitler, Noémie PLUMIER, Ana Mendes

People who are making a difference and creating successes.
But how will the words translate into action?
 
Register to join!
March 23, 2:00 pm (NY time zone):
https://lnkd.in/e_5q3S5U 

#FreshwaterRestoration #UNWater

(Danube Region Water Lighthouse Action; Topic: HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-02-02)

The DALIA project shows how much PEOPLE MAKE A DIFFERENCE when it comes to success in #FreshwaterRestoration.

EcoAdvance (Horizon Europe) Partner Zuzana Boukalova addresses 9 demonstration sites from Danube basin region, keen to discuss the multidisciplinary approaches leading to the successful restoration of the Danube catchment environment and the approaches needed to improve the restoration of fresh and transitional water ecosystems.

WHAT projects and scientific research has made a difference in your country?

To join and share with us WHO YOU THINK makes a difference to freshwater restoration: https://lnkd.in/df5niGJp 

@Marton Pesel (coordinator of DALIA) – thank you for a wonderful meeting!

Learn more about the DALIA project: http://dalia-danube.eu/ 

EcoAdvance visited the High level international BIOEAST congress - “Setting up a research and innovation agenda for the BIOEAST Macro-Region” in Warsaw, 15-16 MARCH 2023!
 
The high level international BIOEAST Congress is organised in the framework of the BIOEAST Initiative and under the auspices of the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development with the support of the Horizon 2020 BIOEASTsUP project.
 
The congress aims to present a newly developed macro-regional Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (BIOEAST SRIA) and 11 bioeconomy concept papers developed based on the assessment of the eleven BIOEAST countries’ bioeconomies.
 
EcoAdvance project represented by Zuzana Boukalova (METCENAS) is trying to set the clustering activities with the stakeholders of the BIOEAST under the thematic area Freshwater-based Bioeconomy and EU Mission Restore our Ocean & Waters.
 
Thank you for the excellent congress and Barna Kovacs PhD for the wonderful presentation!
 
#Freshwater #Bioeconomy 

Great joint Alternet and Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) webinar!

Europe is recognizing the urgency of restoring our environmental assets. The new #NatureRestorationLaw will put the law where theory, guidance and directives stood alone. Cogent and helpful presentations from Maurice Hoffmann, Jordi Cortina-Segarra, Karolina D'CUNHA, and Kris Decleer  ---all very relevant whether your focus is on #NBS or #EcosystemServices.

But will real requirements replace moving targets?
How do we make sure the new law facilitates the integration of science and policy?
 
The key ingredient? The People. Building on the successes of the past and leveraging them to accelerate restoration depends on the People who know how!! 
 
Help EcoAdvance (Horizon Europe) find the people who have brought #freshwaterrestoration to this threshold and whose advice, experience and best practices are needed NOW.
 
Join the consultation effort so the leaders in your country get the credit they deserve for bringing us this far. 
More Information at #EcoAdvance(Horizon) 
 

If you are interested in #FreshwaterRestoration — we need your ideas!

EcoAdvance (Horizon Europe) is a coordination and support action project designed to identify and showcase successful freshwater restoration projects and the people who made them successful in each of the Member States.
It’s a non-traditional, people and community focused project –
It's freshwater restoration from the perspectives of the people who did it, the scientists whose research blazed the way, the communities who changed their neighborhoods and the public officials who have championed getting it done.
 
How do we quantify –or even understand – return on investment and success in freshwater restoration? Clearly #ecosystemservices is an important methodology. But is it all in the numbers?

Join the conversation! Help identify the people and projects who have made freshwater restoration successful in your country.
Let’s talk about what drives success in freshwater restoration.

#ecosystemservices #eu #UNdecade #restoration