Case Studies

The case study area “Petite Glâne” belongs to the Broye catchment in the southwestern part of the Swiss Plateau.

The Schwarzer Schöps case study is located in the East of Germany.

The study site is the sub catchment of Tetves, is considered a priority area in terms of water protection. The size of the study site is 68 km2.

The case study is located in the north central Poland, in Kuyavian-Pomeranian province. The catchment area is about 150 km2.

The Wimbe basin is about 112 km2 in size and is classified as a continental bioregion. The basin consists of the water bodies LE8-10.

Dotnuvėlė river basin covers 192.7 km2. Four reservoirs are situated in the area: near Mantviliškis, Akademija, Dotnuva and near Kėdainiai.

Sävjaån catchment is a lowland mixed land use catchment characteristic of central Sweden.

On a 1.2 ha hillside near Travo (Piacenza), a privately funded permaculture retrofit in 2024 installed a contour-based water retention system to re

This case study reports a 13-year management experiment on an oligotrophic mountain meadow in Šumava National Park, Czech Republic.

The Léguer River catchment is one of the most hedged areas in Brittany, but has suffered a decline in its hedgerow mesh as a result of agricultural

Sponge Scapes case study UK 07

Regenerative agriculture aims to improve the sponge function of the soil.

Ambrosia Forest in Villars-sur-Var is a Terre de Liens farm converting 3.7 ha of abandoned vineyard terraces into a regenerative fruit landscape.

Headwater wet meadow (Saint-Évarzec, Finistère) where two drainage ditches short-circuited a hillside spring and routed nitrate-rich flows directly

Upstream of L’Isle-Jourdain (Gers), the Save’s active floodplain hosts a complex of wet meadows.

Since 1984, the Ille-et-Vilaine Hunting Federation has been restoring a 550-ha peat marsh heavily drained and cropped in the 20th century.

Soumarský Most (Šumava NP) is a raised bog once almost destroyed by industrial peat mining.

This project combined several natural water retention measures: restoration of meadows and pastures, reduced tillage, reduced stocking density, and

The case study lies in the draining basin of the Venice Lagoon, an intensively farmed area crossed by a dense network of drainage channels.

In Saint-Léger-les-Mélèzes (Hautes-Alpes), a ski slope stripped by 2015 remodeling linked with works around the upstream Libouze snowmaking reservo

Along the Ill between Colmar and Strasbourg, a basin-wide programme combines classical flood protection (dykes, optimisation/automation of barrages

At Orup in Skåne, Sweden, SoilCare tested whether loosening a naturally compacted subsoil could improve rooting and yields.

The initiative is aimed at the recovering and maintenance of a cultural and historical heritage with the promotion of new agricultural activities (

The Tullstorpsån Rural Development Project is a long-term, landowner-driven initiative implementing multiple Natural Water Retention Measures to im

Water retention spaces, reforestation and grazing management in southern Portugal.