Rivers

This report provides insight into the rationale and feasability of declaring a protected area for the Vjosa Valley, along with the management objectives and associated protected area categories that would ensure the conservation of the area's key values. 

This report provides insight into the rationale and feasability of declaring a protected area for the Vjosa Valley, along with the management objectives and associated protected area categories that would ensure the conservation of the area's key values. 

This guide emphasizes the ecological goals that are nowadays set in every hydraulic engineering planning. It uses several examples to show how modern flood protection can create living rivers. The examples of successful river revitalization documented in this book are groundbreaking.

La présente brochure fait un état de la situation des rivières du canton - définit quels sont les enjeux à relever, et propose des objectifs ambitieux et des actions efficaces pour la gestion future de nos cours d'eaux.

The first part of this report presents a general review and collection of case-studies on the impacts of water infrastructure on World Heritage areas world-wide. Analysing case studies from all continents, the report comes to the conclusion that the values of river ecosystems, although widely recognized by science and indigenous cultures alike, so far have not been adequately taken into account during implementation of the World Heritage Convention.

Die Schweiz ist mit Wasser gesegnet. Und trotz zahlreicher Verbauungen gibt es sie noch, die fast unberührten Wasserlandschaften, die Naturparadiese, die Wasserperlen, die es zu schützen gilt, weil sie so kostbar geworden sind. Das Buch präsentiert einige der schönsten Gewässer und empfiehlt dazu attraktive Ausflüge.

Freshwater Reviews is a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to enhancing the understanding of inland waters. The content of review papers is primarily biological but papers covering limnology, policy and socio-economic aspects of fresh waters are acceptable if they are relevant to our understanding or management of fresh water biology.