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REFORM River Restoration Wiki
Welcome to the REFORM River Restoration Wiki, a knowledge management tool that addresses the challenges to reach the ecological objectives for rivers as required by the EU Water Framework Directive. The contents are available through the menu (left) or through the links on this main page.
The REFORM wiki is work in progress. It is filled as the deliverables of the REFORM project become available during the period 2012-2015.
Knowledge to assess and restore rivers, streams and floodplains
The categories below give direct links to the main knowledge topics in the wiki.
| Hydrology and morphology Information on the hydrological regime, river continuity and morphological conditions. |
Biological Quality The biological quality elements of the WFD (fish, benthic invertebrates, aquatic vegetation). |
| River Characterisation A multi-scale and process-based hierarchical framework to characterise river types. | |
| Pressures Hydromorphological pressures affecting European rivers, streams and floodplains with links to case-studies. |
Measures Information on sixty types of restoration and mitigation measures with links to case-studies. |
| Ecosystem Services (ES) Description of ES in river environments. (Under construction). |
EU Directives Description of the main EU directives and information sources. (Under construction). |
Know-how on river restoration (Case studies)
The case studies presented provide practitioners with valuable information about (1) the applicability of different measures, (2) what measures mitigate which pressures and (3) possible effects on hydro-morphology and biology when a project is evaluated.
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River restoration measures (case studies) A showcase of international case studies of river restoration measures mitigating pressures on river systems. |
Planning and evaluating river status and river restoration (Tools)
Getting insight in a river system is the key to effective restoration planning. The category 'Tools' provides information on available tools for river assessment and river modelling.
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Tools for river restoration planning and design A collection of tools for river restoration planning and design. Sub categories are Hydro-morphological Assessment methods and Hydromorphological models. |
Linking Case studies, Knowledge and Tools
De REFORM-wiki contains three main parts: know-how (case studies), knowledge and evaluation (tools) that are all interlinked as shown in the figure below. In practice this means:
- Every river restoration case study contains links to the WFD hydro-morphological quality elements; WFD biological quality elements; pressures and measures relevant for that case study.
- Every listed pressure under Category:Pressures shows all the case studies where that pressure has impact.
- Every listed restoration measure under Category:Measures shows all the case studies where that measure is applied.
- Every tool listed is linked to the WFD Hydro-morphological and WFD Biological quality elements in HYMOQE and BQE.
Contribute to the restoration wiki
Everybody is encouraged to contribute to the system. Any information that complements the existing categories is very welcome. Information for new case studies can be sent to any of the partners of REFORM(Contact information) to be reviewed.
- Please register as user by following the link at the top right corner of this page to create your log-in account. Editing rights are preceded by an email request procedure.
- Please bear in mind that any information you provide is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site. Please remember always to acknowledge the original sources of the information.
- Help us to preserve the quality of the information by reporting any abuse you detect (e.g. insertion of advertisements or spam) to reformwiki@deltares.nl. Misuse of the granted access rights will give cause to the Administrator to block or remove the user from the system.
How to edit the wiki-pages?
General information about how to work with the wiki language can be found in the World Wide Web. Some useful references are:
Particular instructions about how to add information to the systems are provided in the User's Manual:
The REFORM web-based tool is a knowledge and information system relating hydromorphology and ecology of European rivers and has been developed as part of the projects REFORM and FORECASTER funded by the European Commission, IWRM-Net and Delft Cluster.
Disclaimer
This web-based tool is an online open-content repository of information about river restoration experiences. Its structure allows anyone with an Internet connection and World Wide Web browser to alter its contents. Therefore, the FORECASTER consortium does not take responsibility for the veracity and completeness of the information entered in the WIKI pages, nor is liable for the use that third parties may give to this information. Readers are adviced to review the information critically.
