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THE NEED FOR RIVER RESTORATION AS A ECOREMEDIATION METHOD OF DEGRADED LANDS

During his long history, men had explored rivers, changed their natural caracteristics, accomodated to their own needs. Rivers were chanalised, regulated with dams and weirs, river habitats were fragmented and the riparian zones were diminished and destroyed as a result of urbanization. The modification of river flow caused a lot of negative concequences in environment. For all those reasons a need for river restoration appeared, as the way for restore rivers in their initial condition and keep them as a natural recource. The need for ecoremediation of degradated rivers become bigger, because the rivers are important natural resource and only with the integrated ecomanagement and through sistematic approach men can repair the damage, which is in accordance with sustainable development.

river degradation ; river restoration ; ecoremediation ; integral resource managemet ; sustainable developement

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