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Monitoring Programmes, Multiple Stress Analysis and Decision Support for River Basin Management

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Risk-Informed Management of European River Basins

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 29))

Abstract

The identification of plausible causes for water body status deterioration will be much easier if it can build on available, reliable, extensive and comprehensive biogeochemical monitoring data (preferably aggregated in a database). A plausible identification of such causes is a prerequisite for well-informed decisions on which mitigation or remediation measures to take. In this chapter, first a rationale for an extended monitoring programme is provided; it is then compared to the one required by the Water Framework Directive (WFD). This proposal includes a list of relevant parameters that are needed for an integrated, a priori status assessment. Secondly, a few sophisticated statistical tools are described that subsequently allow for the estiation of the magnitude of impairment as well as the likely relative importance of different stressors in a multiple stressed environment. The advantages and restrictions of these rather complicated analytical methods are discussed. Finally, the use of Decision Support Systems (DSS) is advocated with regard to the specific WFD implementation requirements.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    That is, information describing the physico-chemical requirements that species present have regarding their habitat

  2. 2.

    RIVPACS = River Invertebrate Prediction and Classification System

  3. 3.

    See: http://www.lumina.com

  4. 4.

    See: http://www.goldsim.com

  5. 5.

    See: http://www.riks.nl/projects/Elbe-DSS

  6. 6.

    See: http://www.modelkey.ufz.de/index.php?en=3150#board

  7. 7.

    See: http://siti.feem.it/mulino/

  8. 8.

    See: http://www.environment.fi/default.asp?contentid=141642&lan=EN

  9. 9.

    See: http://udig.refractions.net/

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  1. Department of Effect-Directed Analysis, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Permoserstraße 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany

    Peter C. von der Ohe & Werner Brack

  2. Centre for Sustainability, Environment and Health (DMG), National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), 1, 3720 BA, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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von der Ohe, P.C. et al. (2014). Monitoring Programmes, Multiple Stress Analysis and Decision Support for River Basin Management. In: Brils, J., Brack, W., Müller-Grabherr, D., Négrel, P., Vermaat, J. (eds) Risk-Informed Management of European River Basins. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38598-8_4

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