Abstract The necessity of plural valuation costs for flood risk management is widely acknowledged, but practical case studies are still scarce. We developed a GIS-based framework to determine spatially explicit priority categories intervention schemes on the Drava River, Southern Hungary. A conventional economic evaluation, including land market prices and additional due legal conservation rest...

This paper discusses the significance of voluntary arrangements for the water and agricultural policies in the European Union. The current implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) require new approaches in water management. As many case studies have shown, co-operative agreements (CAs) between water companies, farmers ...

The EU Water Framework Directive (EUWFD) of 2000 requires that all EU member states "protect, enhance and restore" rivers to attain good surface water quality by 2015. To achieve this mandate, member states divide themselves into watershed basins (River Basin Districts) for the purposes of monitoring and remediation, even if those districts cross international borders. This paper examines three...

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires the ecological assessment of water bodies. Since the littoral zones and the lakeshores are part of lakes as water bodies as defined by the WFD, a new scheme for ecological quality assessment of lakeshores should be established. It is proposed that this scheme should go beyond the formal requirements of the WFD, as it includes aspects of nature con...

The waterbody and nutrient information system Schleswig-Holstein presents water monitoring data to the public. The portal was publicly released in March 2016 and offers a variety of search and evaluation functions. Among others it meets the demands of interest groups like the farmers’ association for data about nutrient concentrations like phosphor and nitrogen in ground and surface water bodie...

For more than 50 years, scientific insights from surface water monitoring have supported Swedish evidence-based environmental management. Efforts to understand and control eutrophication in the 1960s led to construction of wastewater treatment plants with phosphorus retention, while acid rain research in the 1970s contributed to international legislation curbing emissions. By the 1990s, long-ti...

In Italy, Ecotoxicology has found a place with the Legislative Decree n. 152 (May 11, 1999), emanated in fulfilment of the Directives 91/271/CEE "urban waste-water treatment" and 91/676/CEE "protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources". This decree in reality goes beyond (actually anticipating the content of the Framework Directive on Water, still under w...

8 The enactment of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the European Union triggers 9 intense activity among Member States and raises some criticisms. The good status of waters 10 may include an ecological dream that is difficult to achieve. Moreover, criteria for derogations 11 require strong economic arguments. This challenge raises the debate whether the WFD is part 12 of an incremental pr...

ISPRA, on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Environment, carried out the initial assessment of environmental quality status of the 3 Italian subregions (Mediterranean Sea Region) on Descriptor 9. The approach adopted to define the GES started to verify that contaminants in fish and other seafood for human consumption did not exceed levels established by Community legislation (Reg. 1881/2006 and...

The agricultural sector is having an increasing impact on water resources in Spain, both from a quantitative (consumption) and qualitative (pollution) point of view. Therefore, the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) will have a deep impact on this productive sector. In fact, new river management plans are aiming to reduce these pressures through the implementation of programm...