Congress announcement:
Rivers Detour
Management of Forested Water Retention Areas
International Congress
November 17 to 19, 2005
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FOWARA
Problems in the realisation of forested water retention areas:
natural and social scientific studies in the Rhine catchment
The main objective of the project is to develop and test strategies for a sustainable management of forested water retention areas of regional and local significance under the assumption of an increasing probability of flooding events. With a multidisciplinary approach recommendations (tree species, origins, ecological flooding, maximal flooding time, frequency and water heights, influential factors of the implementation and possibilities for the realisation, etc.) for decision makers for a future sustainable land-use and water management of water retention areas will be developed. This will help to maintain on the one hand the function, stability, biodiversity and the growth potential of temporary flooded forests and on the other hand the multi-functional value of the forest stands for forest owners and the society. The results will be used to develop a model to precisely predict the further development of forested water retention areas not only at the study sites of the present project but also of the whole NW-Europe area.
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Project Co-ordinator:
Institute of Forest Botany and
Tree Physiology Chair of Tree Physiology
University of Freiburg
Georges-Koehler-Allee
Geb. 053/054
D-79110 Freiburg Germany
phone +49 (0)761 203 8300
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