This paper introduces key messages from a number of papers emanating from the Second
International Symposium on Riverine Landscapes held in August 2004 in Sweden, focusing …

Faced with widespread degradation of riverine ecosystems, stream restoration has greatly
increased. Such restoration is rarely planned and executed with inputs from ecological …

The foundations of river restoration science rest comfortably in the fields of geology,
hydrology, and engineering, and yet, the impetus for many, if not most, stream restoration …

Pervasive human impacts on urban streams make restoration to predisturbance conditions
unlikely. The effectiveness of ecologically focused restoration approaches typically is limited …

The restoration or rehabilitation of rivers is currently an expanding area of investment by
public water management bodies in the USA and EC. This position has developed from the …

Setting Goals in River Restoration: When and Where Can the River “Heal Itself”?
Page 1 Setting Goals in River Restoration: When and Where Can the River “Heal Itself”? G …

River and stream restoration projects are increasingly numerous but rarely subjected to
systematic postproject evaluation. Without conducting such evaluation and widely …

River restoration is now widely undertaken and may be considered an increasingly
important aspect of river management. Recent developments in European legislation …

Elaborate restoration attempts are underway worldwide to return human‐impacted rivers to
more natural conditions. Assessing the outcome of river restoration projects is vital for …

Since Welcomme's (1979) influential work on the importance of annually-inundated
floodplains for sustaining fish production, attention has in-creasingly focused on the role of …