| Titre : | Lower Danube Green Corridor |
| Auteurs : | Paul Csagoly, Auteur ; Gernant Magnin, Auteur ; Orieta Hulea, Auteur ; C. Max Finlayson, Auteur ; G. Randy Milton, Auteur ; R. Crawford Prentice, Auteur ; Nick C. Davidson, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Chapitre |
| Editeur : | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2018 |
| Format : | 897-902 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés: | Biodiversity ; Ecosystem services ; Floodplain restoration ; Lower Danube Green Corridor |
| Résumé : | The Lower Danube, flowing for more than 1,000 km through Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Moldova, has been identified, together with the Danube Delta as one of the most outstanding biodiversity regions in the world. It is also a region of rich cultural heritage where local livelihoods have been closely connected with the river. Besides sheltering a rich diversity of rare and endangered habitats and species, the freshwater ecosystems of the Lower Danube perform essential environmental services and provide numerous opportunities for the sustainable development of local communities.Human interventions have destroyed more than 80% of all Danube wetlands since the turn of the last century. Dykes, drainage and irrigation systems have been built along the river and its tributaries. Floodplain habitats have been converted to arable lands or forestry monocultures. The construction of large hydro-engineering structures for navigation and hydropower generation have had a heavy impact on biodiversity. Many of the remaining wetlands and floodplain habitats in the Lower Danube still support globally significant biodiversity but are cut off from the natural river dynamics. Consequently their ecological functions and services provided are impaired and their condition is gradually deteriorating. The restoration potential of the Lower Danube Green Corridor is about 500,000 ha, which if implemented, could store a significant volume of water to reduce the flood risks and enhance biodiversity and other ecosystem services. The Lower Danube Green Corridor aims at making the Lower Danube a living River again, connected to its natural flooding areas and wetlands, reducing the risks of major flooding in areas with human settlements and offering benefits both for local economies – fisheries, tourism – and for the ecosystems along the river. |
| En ligne : | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4001-3_251 |
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