Author(s): Helmut Habersack; Lisa Waldenberger; Abdul Waheed; Marlene Haimann; Ellis Penning; Martin Pusch
Linked Author(s): Ellis Penning, Helmut Habersack
Keywords: Nature Based Solutions DANUBE4all Danube Large River ecosystem river management
Abstract: Nature Based Solution are a core object of the EU HORIZON Mission Project Restoration of the Danube River Basin Waters for Ecosystem and People from Mountains to Coast (DANUBE4all). The overall aim of DANUBE4all is the development of a comprehensive Restoration Action Plan for the Danube river basin lighthouse developed in an unprecedented co-creation process with stakeholders, integrating citizens’ interests, supporting the Mission “Restore our ocean and waters by 2030”. Based on solid scientific knowledge and new findings, the Action Plan will promote the improvement of ecological status, biodiversity and ecosystem connectivity. The development and implementation of innovative “Win-Win Nature Based Solutions” will simultaneously lead to an enhanced free-flowing status of rivers and floodplains, flood and drought risk reduction and enhancement of sediment and biota continuity. The aim is to adapt to climate change as well as to improve the endangered biodiversity of ecosystems. This will be reached by identifying, processing and upscaling effective and economically profitable restoration measures. DANUBE4all will implement innovative demonstration activities using NbS measures at three sites in the Upper, Middle Danube and the Danube Delta. Accounting for the degree of representing NbS characteristics, DANUBE4all expands earlier approaches that either categorized a given measure as NbS or not. Management action options are hence assigned to the five categories of NbS pertinence, depending on how many elements of the NbS definition are fulfilled by them. The five levels follow the concept of other assessment systems in environmental policy.
Year: 2025