Assessing the societal benefits of river restoration using the ecosystem services approach

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 769, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 121-135

  Vermaat, Jan E ^a,b   Wagtendonk, Alfred J ^b   Brouwer, Roy ^b   Sheremet, Oleg ^b   Ansink, Erik ^b,c   Brockhoff, Tim ^b   Plug, Maarten ^b,d   Hellsten, Seppo ^d   Aroviita, Jukka ^d   Tylec, Luiza ^e   Giełczewski, Marek ^e   Kohut, Lukas ^f   Brabec, Karel ^f   Haverkamp, Jantine ^b,g   Poppe, Michaela ^g   Böck, Kerstin ^g   Coerssen, Matthijs ^b,h   Segersten, Joel ^h   Hering, Daniel ⁱ  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^e WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^f MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^h SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Economic valuation; Flood control; Nutrient retention; River corridor; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENT; DAIRY FARMING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODPLAIN; LITERATURE REVIEW; MONETARY POLICY; NUTRIENT BUDGET; POPULATION DENSITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER MANAGEMENT; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

EUROPE;

BOS;

EID: 84959535231     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-015-2482-z     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Acuña, V., J. Ramon Diez, L. Flores, M. Meleason & A. Elosegi, 2013. Does it make sense to restore rivers for their ecosystem services? Journal of Applied Ecology 50: 988–997.
2. Banaszuk, P. & A. Kamocki, 2008. Effects of climatic fluctuations and land-use changes on the hydrology of temperate fluvigenous mire. Ecological Engineering 32: 133–146.
3. Banaszuk, P., A. Wysocka-Czubaszek & P. Kondratiuk, 2005. Spatial and temporal patterns of groundwater chemistry in the rver riparian zone. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 107: 167–179.
4. Bateman, I. J., G. M. Mace, C. Fezzi, G. Atkinson & R. K. Turner, 2010. Economic analysis for ecosystem service assessments. Environmental and Resource Economics 48: 177–218.
5. Benayas, J. M. R., A. C. Newton, A. Diaz & J. M. Bullock, 2007. Enhancement of biodiversity and ecosystem services by ecological restoration: a meta-analysis. Science 325: 1121–1124.
6. Bernhardt, E. S. & M. A. Palmer, 2011. River restoration: the fuzzy logic of repairing reaches to reverse catchment scale degradation. Ecological Applications 21: 1926–1931.
7. Bernhardt, E. S., M. A. Palmer, J. D. Allan, G. Alexander, K. Barnas, S. Brooks, J. Carr, S. Clayton, C. Dahm, J. Follstad-Shah, D. Galat, S. Gloss, P. Goodwin, D. Hart, B. Hasset, R. Jenkinson, S. Katz, G. M. Kodolf, P. S. Lake, R. Lave, J. L. Meyr, T. K. O’Donnell, L. Pagano, B. Powell & E. Sudduth, 2005. Synthezising U.S. river restoration efforts. Science 308: 636–637.
8. Bouma, J. A. & P. J. H. Van Beukering, 2015. Ecosystem Services – from Concept to Practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
9. Brander, L., J. E. Vermaat & R. J. G. M. Florax, 2006. The empirics of wetland valuation: a meta-analysis. Environmental and Resource Economics 33: 223–250.
10. Brander, L., R. Brouwer & A. Wagtendonk, 2013. Economic valuation of regulating services provided by wetlands in agricultural landscapes: a meta-analysis. Ecological Engineering 56: 89–96.
11. Brierley, G. J. & K. A. Fryirs, 2005. Geomorphology and River Management: Applications of the River Styles Framework. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
12. Brockhoff, T., 2013. River restoration along the Regge – a comparative analysis of the effects of river restoration on the valuation of ecosystem services. MSc Thesis, Environment and Resource Management VU University, Amsterdam.
13. Brouwer, R., I. H. Langford, I. J. Bateman, T. C. Crowards & R. K. Turner, 1999. A meta-analysis of wetland contingent valuation studies. Regional Environmental Change 1: 47–57.
14. Brouwer, R., M. Hofkes & V. Linderhof, 2008. General equilibrium modelling of the direct and indirect economic impacts of water quality improvements in the Netherlands at national and river basin scale. Ecological Economics 66: 127–140.
15. Bubeck, P., De Moel. H., 2010. Sensitivity analysis of flood damage calculations for the river Rhine. Study for DGWATER, final report, IVM Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam.
16. Cardinale, B. J., J. E. Duffy, A. Gonzalez, D. U. Hooper, C. Perrings, P. Venai, A. Narwani, G. M. Mace, D. Tilman, D. A. Wardle, A. P. Kinzig, G. C. Daily, M. Loreau, J. B. Grace, A. Larigauderie, D. S. Srivastava & S. Naeem, 2012. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature 486: 59–67.
17. Carpenter, S. R., H. A. Mooney, J. Agard, D. Capistrano, R. S. DeFries, S. Díaz, T. Dietz, A. K. Duraiappah, A. Oteng-Yeboah, H. M. Pereira, C. Perrings, W. V. Reidl, J. Sarukhan, R. J. Scholes & A. Whyte, 2009. Science for managing ecosystem services: beyond the millennium ecosystem assessment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 1305–1312.
18. Coersen, M., 2015. Ecosystem services valuation of degraded and non-degraded river segments of the Morrumsån river in Sweden. BSc Thesis Earth Sciences and Economics, VU University, Amsterdam.
19. Davies, C. E., Moss, D., Hill, M. O., 2004. EUNIS habitat classification revised 2004. Report to the European Environment Agency and the European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Dorchester. Available at http://eunis.eea.eu.int/index.jsp.
20. DEFRA, 2007. An Introductory Guide to Valuing Ecosystem Services. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London.
21. De Groot, R. S., R. Alkemade, L. Braat, L. Hein & L. Willemen, 2010. Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making. Ecological Complexity 7: 260–272.
22. De Klein, J. J. M. & A. A. Koelmans, 2011. Quantifying seasonal export and retention of nutrients in West European lowland rivers at catchment scale. Hydrological Processes 25: 2102–2111.
23. Derwisch, S., L. Schwendemann, R. Olschewski & D. Holscher, 2009. Estimation and economic valuation of aboveground carbon storage of Tectona grandis plantations in Western Panama. New Forests 37: 227–240.
24. Dubgaard, A., M. Kallesøe, J. Ladenburg & M. Pedersen, 2005. Cost-benefit analysis of the Skjern river restoration in Denmark. In Brouwer, R. & D. Pearce (eds), Cost Benefit Analysis and Water Resource Management. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham.
25. Fisher, B., R. K. Turner & P. Morling, 2009. Defining and classifying ecosystem services for decision making. Ecological Economics 68: 643–653.
26. Gielczewski, M., 2003. The Narew river basin: a model for the sustainable management of agriculture, nature and water supply. PhD Thesis, Utrecht University.
27. Gilvear, D. J., C. J. Spray & R. Casas-Mulet, 2013. River rehabilitation for the delivery of multiple ecosystem services at the river network scale. J Env Manage 126: 30–43.
28. Gradzinski, R., J. Baryla, M. Doktor, D. Gmur, M. Gradzinski, A. Kedzior, M. Paszkowski, R. Soja, T. Zielinski & S. Zurek, 2003. Vegetation-controlled modern anastomosing system of the upper Narew River (NE Poland) and its sediments. Sedimentary Geology 157: 253–276.
29. Hammer, Ø., D. A. T. Harper & P. D. Ryan, 2001. Past: paleontological statistics Software package for education and data analysis. Palaeontolia Electronica 4: 4.
30. Haverkamp, J., 2014. Assessing river restoration of two Austrian rivers, the Enns and the Drau, a comparative analysis of river restoration by valuing ecosystem services. MSc Thesis, Transnational ecosystem-based Water Management, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands and University of Duisburg-Essen.
31. Hering, D., J. Arovitta, A. Baattrupp-Pedersen, K. Brabec, T. Buijze, F. Ecke, N. Friberg, M. Gielczewski, K. Januschke, J. Kohler, B. Kupilas, A. Lorenz, S. Muhar, A. Paillex, M. Poppe, T. Schmidt, S. Schmutz, J. E. Vermaat, P. Verdonschot, R. Verdonschot, 2015. Contrasting the roles of section length and instream habitat enhancement for river restoration success: a field study on 20 European restoration projects. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12531.
32. Jähnig, S. C., A. W. Lorenz, D. Hering, C. Antons, A. Sundermann, E. Jedicke & P. Haase, 2011. River restoration success: a question of perception. Ecological Applications 21: 2007–2015.
33. Kohut, L., 2014. Evaluation of ecosystem services provided by restored and unrestored part of river Beczva, Czech Republic. Internal Report, Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Masaryk University, Brno.
34. Lorenz, A. W. & C. K. Feld, 2013. Upstream river morphology and riparian land use overrule local restoration effects on ecological status assessment. Hydrobiologia 704: 489–501.
35. Martin-Lopez, B., E. Gomez-Baggethun, M. Garcia-Llorente & C. Montes, 2014. Trade-offs across value-domains in ecosystem services assessment. Ecological Indicators 37: 220–228.
36. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-being, Summary for Decision Makers. Island Press, Washington.
37. Morandi, B., H. Piegay, N. Lamouroux & L. Vaudor, 2014. How is success or failure in river restoration projects evaluated? Feedback from French restoration projects. Journal of Environmental Management 137: 178–188.
38. Muhar, S., K. Januschke, J. Kail, M. Poppe, D. Hering, A. D. Buijse, this issue. Evaluating good-practice cases for river restoration across Europe: context, methodological framework, selected results and recommendations. Hydrobiologia.
39. Murray, B., A. Jenkins, R. Kramer, S. P. Faulkner, 2009. Valuing ecosystem services from wetlands restoration in the Mississippi alluvial valley. Nicholas Institute reports 09-02, Duke University, Durham.
40. Nabuurs, G. J. & M. Schelhaas, 2002. Carbon profiles of typical forest types across Europe assessed with CO2FIX. Ecological Indicators 1: 213–223.
41. Nelson, E., G. Mendoza, J. Regetz, S. Polasky, H. Tallis, D. R. Cameron, K. M. Chan, G. C. Daily, J. Goldstein, P. M. Kareiva, E. Lonsdorf, R. Naidoo, T. H. Ricketts & M. R. Shaw, 2009. Modelling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 4–11.
42. Olde Venterink, H., F. Wiegman, G. E. M. Van der Lee & J. E. Vermaat, 2003. Role of active floodplains for nutrient retention in the river Rhine. Journal of Environmental Quality 32: 1430–1435.
43. Olde Venterink, H., J. E. Vermaat, M. Pronk, F. Wiegman, G. E. M. Van der Lee, M. W. Van den Hoorn, L. W. G. Higler & J. T. A. Verhoeven, 2006. Importance of sedimentation and denitrification for plant productivity and nutrient retention in various floodplain wetlands. Applied Vegetation Science 9: 163–174.
44. Pedersen, M. L., N. Friberg, J. Skriver, A. Baattrup-Pedersen & S. E. Larsen, 2007. Restoration of Skjern river and its valley – Short-term effects on river habitats, macrophytes and macro invertebrates. Ecological Engineering 30: 145–156.
45. Plug, M. C., 2014. Uncovering the pitfalls and quantifying the merits of river restoration: a case study on the Finnish Vääräjoki. MSc Thesis, Earth Sciences and Economics, VU University, Amsterdam.
46. Skøien, J. O., G. Blöschl & A. W. Western, 2003. Characteristic space scales and timescales in hydrology. Water Resources Research 39: 1304.
47. Střeleček, F., J. Lososová & R. Zdeněk, 2011. Farmland rent in the European Union. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 59: 309–318.
48. Turner, R. K., J. C. J. M. Van den Bergh, T. Soderqvist, A. Barendregt, J. Van der Straaten, E. Maltby & E. C. Van Ierland, 2000. Ecological-economic analysis of wetlands: scientific integration for management and policy. Ecological Economics 35: 7–23.
49. Tylec, L., 2013. An assessment of the societal benefits of the Narew river restoration versus the restoration costs using the ecosystem services approach. MSc Thesis Civil and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw.
50. Underwood, A. J., 1996. Experiments in Ecology: Their Logical Design and Interpretation Using Analysis of Variance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
51. Van Teeffelen, A., L. Miller, J. Van Minnen, J. E. Vermaat & M. Cabeza, 2014. How climate proof is the European Union’s biodiversity policy? Regional Environmental Change. doi:10.1007/s10113-014-0647-3.
52. Vermaat, J. E., E. Ansink, M. Catalinas Perez, A. Wagtendonk, R. Brouwer, 2013. Valuing the ecosystem services provided by European river corridors – an analytical framework. Report D2.3 of the FP7 project REFORM. http://www.reformrivers.eu/deliverables/d2-3.
53. 20 from drained organic soils in deciduous forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 37: 1059–1071.
54. Wallace, K. J., 2007. Classification of ecosystem services: problems and solutions. Biological Conservation 139: 235–246.
55. Watson, R. & S. Albon (eds), 2011. The UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Synthesis of the Key Findings. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge.
56. Weber, J. L., 2011. An experimental framework for ecosystem capital accounting in Europe. EEQA technical Report 13/2011. EEA Copenhagen.
57. Westmann, W. E., 1977. How much are nature’s services worth? Measuring the social benefits of ecosystem functioning is both controversial and illuminating. Science 197: 960–964.
58. Zedler, J. B. & S. Kercher, 2005. Wetland resources: status, trends, ecosystem services and restorability. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 30: 39–74.