first newsletter of the EU FP7 project REFORM (Restoring rivers for effective catchment management).

Please scroll down for an overview of the newsletter articles.

REFORM is targeted towards development of guidance and tools to make river restoration and mitigation measures more cost-effective and to support the 2nd and future River Basin Management Plans for the Water Framework Directive.

The REFORM newsletter will be published every half year to inform interested people on the progress of our project and on other connected developments.
For the distribution of the first newsletter, we have used several mailing lists. As a consequence, you might receive the announcement more than once. We apologise for this cross-posting.
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We would also like to invite you to visit our website (www.reformrivers.eu) which gives further details on the REFORM project.

Best regards,

Tom Buijse, Deltares
Coordinator of REFORM

Eleftheria Kampa, Ecologic Institute
Leader of REFORM Dissemination & Stakeholder Participation

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REFORM Newsletter No 1- June 2012

Contents:

1.    Welcome editorial by the REFORM Coordinator
2.    River restoration in need of priorities and a process-oriented approach -  An interview with Professor Klement Tockner
3.    The WISER project – Key results
4.    REFORM Meta-analyses – What is it about?
5.    Field training course in Silkeborg, Denmark
6.    The River Narew (Poland) has it all being in part natural, regulated and restored
7.    11th Meeting of Working Group F on Floods of the WFD Common Implementation Strategy (Bucharest, 19 April 2012)
8.    CIS ECOSTAT workshop on Hydromorphology of the WFD Common Implementation Strategy (Brussels, 12-13 June 2012)

1.    Welcome editorial by the REFORM Coordinator
Tom Buijse (coordinator of REFORM) introduces REFORM and the contents of the 1st newsletter of the project…Read more

2.    River restoration in need of priorities and a process-oriented approach - An interview with Professor Klement Tockner
Professor Klement Tockner (Director of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Germany) shares his views on the current challenges in river restoration in Europe and the importance of research projects such as REFORM to improve the success of hydromorphological restoration measures…Read more

3.    The WISER project – Key results
WISER (Water bodies in Europe – Integrative Systems to assess Ecological Status and Recovery) was a large EU-funded research project, which ended in February 2012. This article presents the key findings of WISER and outlines its relevance for REFORM…Read more

4.    REFORM Meta-analyses – What is it about?
One of the aims of REFORM is to make the state-of-the-art knowledge on hydromorphology, the interaction with ecology and wider environmental aspects timely available to support river basin managers while preparing the next round of River Basin Management Plans. This article explains the compilation of existing knowledge in work package 1 of REFORM to support further research steps…Read more

5.    Field training course in Silkeborg, Denmark
REFORM scientists organized a field training course in May 2012 in Silkeborg, Denmark, to discuss field methods, which will be applied in the case study areas of REFORM…Read more

6.    The River Narew (Poland) has it all being in part natural, regulated and restored
The River Narew in Poland is one of the case studies of REFORM on river restoration. This article gives an insight on the history of human intervention and restoration on the River Narew…Read more

7.    11th Meeting of Working Group F on Floods of the WFD Common Implementation Strategy (Bucharest, 19 April 2012)
The Working Group F on Floods met on 19 April 2012 to discuss the current status of the Floods Directive reporting and to plan the next steps to be adopted after the recent completion of the preliminary flood risk assessment. Dr. Stefano Mariani (ISPRA, IT) introduced REFORM to the delegates of this meeting…Read more

8.    CIS ECOSTAT workshop on Hydromorphology of the WFD Common Implementation Strategy (Brussels, 12-13 June 2012)
The CIS ECOSTAT workshop on Hydromorphology aimed to contribute to an understanding of the current state of play with respect to the assessment of hydromorphological impacts and the classification of ecological potential. The REFORM project was invited to present its aims and approach including a glimpse of one of the first draft results on hydromorphological assessment methods...Read more