RESTORATION OF THE DANUBE RIVER BASIN WATERS FOR ECOSYSTEMS AND PEOPLE FROM MOUNTAINS TO COAST

欧洲河流上的100多万个屏障导致了河流连通性的广泛丧失，70- 90%的欧洲洪泛区由于人类的改变而生态退化。尽管欧盟有一个雄心勃勃的政策框架，但淡水和过渡水生态系统恢复的实施滞后。造成这种情况的原因之一是当地人民和商业行为者缺乏知识、意识和参与。DANUBE4all的总体目标是为多瑙河流域灯塔制定一项全面的修复行动计划，该计划是在与利益攸关方前所未有的共同创造过程中制定的，整合了公民的利益，以支持“到2030年恢复我们的海洋和水域”的使命。该行动计划将以坚实的科学知识和新发现为基础，促进生态状况、生物多样性和生态系统连通性的改善。创新的“基于自然的双赢解决方案”的开发和实施将同时提高河流和洪泛区的自由流动状况，减少洪水和干旱风险，增强沉积物和生物群的连续性。其目的是适应气候变化，并改善濒临灭绝的生态系统生物多样性。这将通过确定、处理和升级有效和经济上有利可图的恢复措施来实现。DANUBE4all将在多瑙河上游、中游和多瑙河三角洲的三个地点实施创新示范活动。DANUBE4all将把生态效益和经济效益联系起来，为中小企业提供量身定制的商业案例，并将提供创新工具，加快公民和利益相关者的参与。DANUBE4all将提供地理信息系统和公民科学工具，通过多瑙河流域的十个协同站点来扩大这些恢复行动，并将通过制定恢复行动的复制路线图的具体步骤，将成果转移到五个相关区域。

Over one million barriers on Europe’srivers have resulted in extensive loss of river connectivity and 70-90 % of Europe’sfloodplain areas are ecologically degraded due to human modifications. Despite having an ambitious EU policy framework in place, implementation of fresh and transitional water ecosystem restoration is lagging behind. Reasons for this lie among others in a lack of knowledge, awareness and participation of local people and business actors. The overall aim of DANUBE4all is the development of a comprehensive Restoration Action Plan for the Danube river basin lighthouse developed in an unprecedented co-creation process with stakeholders, integrating citizens’ interests to support the Mission “Restore our ocean and waters by 2030”. Based on solid scientific knowledge and new findings, the Action Plan will promote the improvement of ecological status, biodiversity and ecosystem connectivity. The development and implementation of innovative “Win-Win Nature Based Solutions” will simultaneously lead to an enhanced free-flowing status of rivers and floodplains, flood and drought risk reduction and enhancement ofsediment and biota continuity. The aim isto adapt to climate change as well as to improve the endangered biodiversity of ecosystems. This will be reached by identifying, processing and upscaling effective and economically profitable restoration measures. DANUBE4all will implement innovative demonstration activities at three sites in the Upper, Middle Danube and the Danube Delta. DANUBE4all will link ecological and economic benefits providing tailored business cases for SMEs, and will deliver innovative tools to accelerate citizens’ and stakeholders’ engagement. DANUBE4all will provide GIS and Citizen Science tools for upscaling these restoration actions via ten Synergy Sites to the Danube Basin and will also transfer the outcomes to five Associated Regions by concrete steps towards the development of Replication Roadmaps for restoration action.