HyMoCARES - HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services
Abstract
River corridors represent the most used and modified landscape elements in the Alps. They provide key ecosystem services (ES), but currently many of them are at risk or significantly degraded. In order to ensure their conservation or restoration, the effects of human uses on ES need to be understood and tackled. In particular, river hydromorphological processes have a key role to ensure habitat maintenance and ecological connectivity and are strongly related to strategic societal challenges such as flood risk mitigation, renewable energy production, and ensuring recreational values of Alpine valleys. Suitable approaches are needed to clarify the links between uses, hydromorphological processes and ES availability and to make ES more transparent to the public, support conflict resolution, and design cost-effective mitigation and restoration measures. The project will develop a conceptual framework, currently not available, and operational tools, including novel methods based on remote sensing, to integrate ES in Alpine river basin planning and management, with a special focus on factors affecting river hydromorphology and ensuring integration of local and basin scales. The consortium includes a transnational network of policy makers and practitioners in charge of river planning and management at different levels, as well as scientific experts on river hydromorphology and ecology, in order to ensure integration and transferability of the approach to all Alpine countries.
Erosion River restoration Ecosystem services River engineering Sediment balance
Publikationen
Project staff
Helmut Habersack
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Dr.h.c. Helmut Habersack
helmut.habersack@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81901, 81911
BOKU Project Leader
01.11.2016 - 31.10.2019
Mario Klösch
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Mario Klösch
mario.kloesch@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81913
Sub Projectleader
01.11.2016 - 31.10.2019
Sebastian Pessenlehner
Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Pessenlehner Bakk.techn.
sebastian.pessenlehner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81924
Project Staff
01.11.2016 - 31.10.2019
Angelika Riegler
Mag.rer.nat. Angelika Riegler
angelika.riegler@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81934
Project Staff
01.11.2016 - 31.10.2019
BOKU partners
External partners
PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI BOLZANO − ALTO ADIGE_x000D_ Agenzia per la Protezione civile Settore Sviluppo progetti_x000D_
Dott. Nicola Marangoni
partner