Project description
Benefits of Danube basin freshwater and wetlands restoration
More than 70 % of the wetlands in the Danube Basin have been lost, and the remaining wetlands are under threat from human activity. In this context, the EU-funded Restore4Life project highlights the numerous socio-economic benefits of taking a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to restoring freshwater and coastal wetlands in the Danube Basin. This initiative aims to facilitate the development of new blue-green infrastructure, enhancing the region’s resilience to climate change and its impact. Restore4Life will carry out demonstrations at four sites and monitor six sites in the Danube Basin to showcase the advantages of improved delivery of essential ecosystem services such as water and pollutant retention, carbon sequestration and tourism opportunities.
Objective
Restore4Life demonstrates the multiple socio-economic benefits generated by a holistic and transdisciplinary approach for the restoration of freshwater and coastal wetlands in the Danube basin that will contribute to new blue-green infrastructure supporting regional climate change resilience and mitigation. Restore4Life engages in 4 demonstration sites and 6 monitoring sites all across the Danube basin to make evident that increased delivery of key ecosystem services, as water and pollutant retention, carbon sequestration and tourism opportunities as well as improved resilience of water-dependent habitats will produce multiple socio-economic synergies that also provide opportunities for sustainable businesses and investments.
Implementation of activities basically aiming to restore lateral connectivity in riverine corridors will be supported by a Restore4Life long term wetland restoration service/ Restore4Life Wetland Reconstruction Accelerator that combines timely integrative wetland management with a novel level of societal engagement. The Accelerator will provide tested indicators, monitoring approaches and decision support to identify adapted and future-oriented restoration goals, techniques and holistic road maps. Citizens and stakeholders will be empowered to engage in the co-design of projects by establishing stakeholder communities of practice, by twinning of similar projects at different realization stage, citizen science, thematic mobile apps and the use of multiple communication channels with special focus on visual, hands-on interactive information flow that promotes emotional links to water shaped environment. The various tools generated by Restore4Life also including handbooks for business audiences and targeted restoration roadmaps will secure the efficient replication of restoration activities in associated regions. In collaboration with similar mission activities, Restore4Life thus efficiently supports integrative social and economic transitions
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050663 Bucuresti
Romania
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Participants (30)
1180 Wien
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024053 Bucharest
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800008 Galati
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21000 Novi Sad
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21000 Novi Sad
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31000 Osijek
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18 000 Nis
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013686 Bucuresti Sectorul 1
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85072 Eichstätt
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050881 Bucuresti
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5000 Szolnok
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814 99 Bratislava
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1113 Sofia
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21000 Novi Sad
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D02 XE80 LOWER DUBLIN
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
3501 Miskolc
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1504 Sofia
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1083 Budapest
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81000 Podgorica
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71000 Sarajevo
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011601 Bucharest
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28006 Madrid
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12489 Berlin
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841 04 Bratislava
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1000 Ljubljana
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04318 Leipzig
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820112 Tulcea
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1220 Wien
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040129 Bucuresti
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83103 SAMOS
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