Re-meander, rewet, rewild! Overwhelming public support for restoration of small rivers in the three Baltic Sea basin countries
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Re-meander, rewet, rewild! Overwhelming public support for restoration of small rivers in the three Baltic Sea basin countries. / Giergiczny, Marek; Valasiuk, Sviataslau; Kotowski, Wiktor; Galera, Halina; Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl; Sagebiel, Julian; Wichtmann, Wendelin; Jabłońska, Ewa.
In: Restoration Ecology, Vol. 30, No. 5, e13575, 2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Re-meander, rewet, rewild! Overwhelming public support for restoration of small rivers in the three Baltic Sea basin countries
AU - Giergiczny, Marek
AU - Valasiuk, Sviataslau
AU - Kotowski, Wiktor
AU - Galera, Halina
AU - Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl
AU - Sagebiel, Julian
AU - Wichtmann, Wendelin
AU - Jabłońska, Ewa
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Baltic Sea is one of the World's most oxygen-depletes seas, so the region requires urgent mitigation measures to significantly reduce nitrogen and phosphorus inputs from land through rivers, which cannot be achieved without large-scale restoration of wetland buffer zones. The manuscript summarises the findings of the discrete choice experiment aimed at assessment of the preferences of Danish, German, and Polish citizens towards ecosystem services of lowland small rivers of the Baltic Sea basin. Our results suggest that respondents in all the studied countries are willing to pay substantial amounts to improve water quality in rivers and the Baltic Sea, as well as to restore naturally meandering rivers and natural riparian vegetation. Wild marshes and Wetland agriculture were equally valued as the most desirable options. Respondents systematically cared about the appearance of small rivers in their neighbourhood. We conclude that re-meandering, re-wetting of floodplains, and restoration of wild marshes (i.e. natural wetland vegetation) or development of wetland agriculture could gain a lot of public support in Europe.
AB - Baltic Sea is one of the World's most oxygen-depletes seas, so the region requires urgent mitigation measures to significantly reduce nitrogen and phosphorus inputs from land through rivers, which cannot be achieved without large-scale restoration of wetland buffer zones. The manuscript summarises the findings of the discrete choice experiment aimed at assessment of the preferences of Danish, German, and Polish citizens towards ecosystem services of lowland small rivers of the Baltic Sea basin. Our results suggest that respondents in all the studied countries are willing to pay substantial amounts to improve water quality in rivers and the Baltic Sea, as well as to restore naturally meandering rivers and natural riparian vegetation. Wild marshes and Wetland agriculture were equally valued as the most desirable options. Respondents systematically cared about the appearance of small rivers in their neighbourhood. We conclude that re-meandering, re-wetting of floodplains, and restoration of wild marshes (i.e. natural wetland vegetation) or development of wetland agriculture could gain a lot of public support in Europe.
U2 - 10.1111/rec.13575
DO - 10.1111/rec.13575
M3 - Journal article
VL - 30
JO - Restoration Ecology
JF - Restoration Ecology
SN - 1061-2971
IS - 5
M1 - e13575
ER -
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