International River Restoration Survey
Project Profile
International River Restoration Survey |
The river restoration literature is rich with approaches, ideas, criticisms
and strategic considerations. This literature primarily reflects the
perspectives of restoration scientists. Occasionally, generalizations
are made about problems in river restoration from the perspective
of practitioners, policy-makers, stakeholders and managers. However,
these generalizations have little objective basis other than individual
experience. Further, it appears much of the information disseminated
in the river restoration literature never finds its way into practice.
Whether this is because the information is inappropriate, unrealistic,
ineffective, inaccessible or some combination thereof is unclear.
In order to document the current perspectives of the wider river restoration community and gain some insight into the above problems, a web-based survey was launched internationally via popular restoration web sites and related list-serves. This is research I undertook as part of my literature review for my PhD research into Uncertainties in River Restoration. If you are interested in taking the survey or viewing the results, visit the survey homepage. |
FUTURE PLANS: |
| I would like to re-launch this survey at some point in the next five years, but this time link in better with other efforts (e.g. NRRS), build-in improved dynamic questioning (allowing groups and users to submit their own questions for consideration), build a more elaborate results query engines for users, and better promote it. If anyone is interested, contact me. |
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See Also: |
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Wheaton, Darby, S.E.,
Sear, D.A. and J.M., Milne, J.A., 2006.