ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

Global strategies

Restoring river ecosystems

Restoring river ecosystems

Broader

Rehabilitating degraded aquatic environments

Rehabilitating damaged ecosystems

Maintaining healthy ecosystems

Narrower

Integrating wetlands biodiversity conservation into river basin management

Constrained by

Withdrawing upstream water

Forcing displacement of wildlife

Diverting rivers

Discharging into rivers

Depleting natural habitats

Damaging ecosystems

Facilitates

Creating wildlife habitats

Stabilizing ecosystems

Managing degraded river basins

Facilitated by

Rehabilitating rivers

Reducing river pollution

Setting quality criteria for marine and freshwater ecosystems

Protecting freshwater wildlife from pollution

Integrating forestry with wildlife and fisheries

Increasing cooperation of riparian countries for assessing transboundary water resources

Educating in flood and river control

Related

Restoring wildlife habitats

Protecting aquatic ecosystems

Problem

Vulnerability of ecosystem niches

Uncontrolled river erosion

River pollution

Environmentally destructive redirection of water flows

Environmental degradation due to creation of dams

Threatened permanent river habitats

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #14: Life Below Water

Sustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database

Global strategies

Type

(E) Emanations of other strategies

Subject

Hydrology » Rivers and lakes
Geography » Ecology

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

1A4N

J9497

DOCID

12094970

D7NID

193805

Editing link

Official link

https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/restoring-river-ecosystems

Last update

Dec 3, 2024