This review article critically examines how contemporary practitioners approach river restoration and challenges for implementing restoration, which include clearly identified objectives, holistic understanding of rivers as ecosystems, and the role of restoration as a social process.
This article aims to introduce new arguments for bioengineering along riverbanks by applying the ecosystem service approach. We focus on major regulating services usually provided by floodplains. Denitrification and phosphorous retention were estimated by applying proxy-based models. Carbon sequestration within vegetation was calculated using biomass equations. The study clearly indicates an increase of ecosystem services by bioengineering measures compared to conventionally fixed riverbanks.
This illustrated Construction Type Manual in 5 European languages compiles 170 construction methods describing techniques which use plants as building materials. This includes preparations necessary before they can be planted and become effective. This is followed by work which allows the plants alone to take over technical, ecological and aesthetic functions. Chapter 7, which is the largest one, contains methods of stabili-zing structures by combining living with non-living materials.
Das Buch „Pflanzen statt Beton“ zeigt auf der Grundlage der Ingenieurbiologie und der Vegetationstechnik die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten der Pflanzenverwendung in den Bereichen „sichern und gestalten.“ Die wesentliche Änderung in der 2. völlig überarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage ist die Trennung der Sicherungs- und Gestaltungsarbeiten mit Pflanzen in einen Teil A und einen Teil B, die nach vier allgemeinen und anwendungsübergreifenden Kapiteln neu geordnet wurden. Hervorgehoben werden Themen wie z. B. Wirksamkeit von Dachbegrünung, von neuen Arten der Fassaden- und Innenraumbegrünung.
Global Change Biology is an environmental change journal dedicated to shaping the future and solving the world's most challenging problems by tackling sustainability, climate change and environmental protection, food and water safety and provision, as well as global health. The journal exists to promote the understanding of the impacts of global change on biological systems and solutions.
Ecological Engineering - The Journal of Ecosystem Restoration is a specialized publication bridging the fields of ecology and engineering, focusing on the design, monitoring, and restoration of ecosystems for the benefit of both humans and nature. Covering topcs such as habitat reconstruction, ecotechnology, bioengineering, and stream restoration, the journal emphasizes innovative research in ecosystem rehabilitation.