Guidelines for rehabilitation and management of floodplains: Ecology and safety combined

Guidelines for rehabilitation and management of floodplains: Ecology and safety combined

Wolters, H.A.
Platteeuw, M.
Schoor, M.M.

Rijkswaterstaat

NCR

2001-12-01

The first three chapters of this report offer introductions, each from their own viewpoint. In the first chapter, the focus point is the river landscape in general. Amongst others the history of human interference in the river landscape, theories on the ecological functioning of rivers and summaries of hydrological and morphological processes are treated here. Because of its general nature the reference list of this chapter is somewhat longer than that of the other chapters, offering a number of entries for those interested in further reading. The second chapter gives an overview of relevant policy documents for the river landscape in the Netherlands. The third chapter deals with some aspects in which the interrelations between the different rehabilitation measures (treated in more detail in chapters 4 to 10) come to light. These aspects are the ecological coherence in ecological networks, the effects of measures on design river water levels and aspects of dealing with polluted soils. Chapters 4 to 10 each deal with one of the measures that might be considered in floodplain rehabilitation projects. In all of these seven chapters, first the measure and its reference situation are described; then attention is paid to the functioning of the area in which the measure is implemented, from hydrological, morphological and ecological viewpoints. Finally an overview of the suitability of the river stretches to the measure and a number of guidelines and recommendations for the implementation of the measure are given. For all of these chapters a similar structure was chosen, in order to secure easy access for users trying to find specific information quickly. The last chapter deals with grazing management, the choices that must be made there, and the consequences these choices have for the further development of the area. This last chapter to some degree is relevant for all preceding chapters dealing with specific measures, but this time from the viewpoint of terrain management.

river management
river levels
nature friendly shorelines

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Rijkswaterstaat, RIZA

RIZA report: 2001.059 ISSN 1568-234X NCR rapport 09-2001

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