Rediscovering the value of urban rivers

摘要: Rivers commonly serve as defining, founding features of human settlements, yet urbanisation has degraded them, often to the extent that they no longer provide services society from which settlements developed. Urban river restoration expanded in recent years and part this can be attributed increased recognition interconnected benefits restored ecosystems society. This paper reviews impact on rivers ecosystem provide, explores approach restoration. Techniques tools for practical application conservation are considered, with reference case studies. There is a need internalise service insights into pragmatic, transparent readily-used understood planning tools, based capacities range corridors. necessary if we avoid continued erosion critical resources such rivers, rediscovering their multiple values society, accelerate translation these sustainability concepts applied tools.