
FOREST MANAGEMENT CENTRE
FOREST MANAGEMENT CENTRE
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Open Access Mandate for Publications and Research data assignment_turned_in Project2021 - 2026Partners:TDV, ERINN INNOVATION, STICHTING WETLANDS INTERNATIONAL, WWF BULGARIA, Ca Foscari University of Venice +29 partnersTDV,ERINN INNOVATION,STICHTING WETLANDS INTERNATIONAL,WWF BULGARIA,Ca Foscari University of Venice,Uppsala University,ESTONIAN FUND FOR NATURE,University of Leeds,STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT,FOREST MANAGEMENT CENTRE,WE ARE HERE VENICE,UT,UCG,CSIC,PROSPEX INSTITUTE,PLAN BLEU,DEFRA,Natural England,BALKANI WILDLIFE SOCIETY,Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government,IRL,WWF,UCD,LANDSCAPE FINANCE LAB - VEREIN FURINKUBATION NACHHALTIGER LANDSCHAFTEN,UEF,PROVINCIE GRONINGEN,STAATSBOSBEHEER,WU,GTK,Scottish Wildlife Trust,Tootsi Turvas,WETLANDS CONSERVATION CENTRE,MICHAEL SUCCOW STIFTUNG ZUM SCHUTZDER NATUR,UWFunder: European Commission Project Code: 101036484Overall Budget: 23,631,600 EURFunder Contribution: 23,068,500 EURWaterLANDS aims to enable an upscaling of the restoration of wetlands. Socio-economic factors, insufficient stakeholder engagement, lack of government commitment, lack of funding and inadequate exchange of knowledge of restoration methods have all been identified as barriers to successful restoration. Consequently, most restoration has been modest in scale, has occurred mainly where there is a single landowning or responsible organisation, and has often been undertaken principally for reasons of conservation. WaterLANDS will work to overcome these barriers. It includes both Action and Knowledge Sites, the former being the object of restoration upscaling, and the latter a source of best practice experience and knowledge. To provide for local support and sustainability, it will aim for the co-design of restoration with the on-going engagement of communities and stakeholders. It will investigate best practice in ecological restoration which meets both biodiversity and social objectives and for which restoration trajectories are specific to the physical and cultural context of the Action Sites. It will propose supportive governance structures appropriate to this process and to local and national circumstances. It will identify business models, economic incentives and international funding sources and tailor or direct these resources for each site. The project will pull this expertise and knowledge together in a co-creation work package. Process-indicators will be developed to enable on-going assessment of restoration success in terms of ecosystem services, socioeconomic embedding and financial sustainability, to ensure wide-scale restoration which catalyses scalability beyond the life of the WaterLANDS project.
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