Learning from River Restoration Projects

摘要: In funding and planning river restoration projects, agencies tend to focus on physical implementation, include monitoring only as an afterthought. The situation is improving, with more requiring of projects assess the effectiveness their investments, but most constructed today are still not monitored well enough learn effectively from them. relatively rare cases where a large number have been systematically monitored, typically half or shown be failing meeting design objectives. Because hydraulics alluvial channels indeterminate, we must live uncertainty in outcome our interventions. With adaptive management approach, each project can treated experiment, which learn, provided undertake adequate post-project appraisal based good baseline data sound study plan. Examining range channel reconstruction often find commonalities that inform future efforts.