Case Studies

The River Tolka runs through Dublin, Ireland.

This flagship of the national Room for the River programme at Nijmegen set back the dyke at Lent and excavated the Spiegelwaal side channel, creati

Measures to attenuate runoff were installed in the small Belford catchment, in northeast England, in order to reduce the risk of flooding to the vi

During recent years the construction of sediment capture ponds as a part of the drainage system has become a good practice measure in the forests m

The Slowing the Flow at Pickering project (2009–2015) set out to reduce flood peaks in Pickering, North Yorkshire, by harnessing natural processes

The measures implemented at two river within the city of Hamburg (Germany) included the restoration of rivers and ponds (N1), the revitalization of

Forest ecosystems in Poland have long suffered from drought and rapid surface water runoff.

Fornebu is a brownfield development project with a focus on sustainable stormwater management and green infrastructure.

The Foki side arm is a historic Danube branch in the Inland Delta about 40 km from Bratislava.

The Sutlansko Lake area is a wetland with a high biological diversity.

The Timonchio Retention Pond was implemented in 2019 within the LIFE BEWARE project as an innovative response to increasing drought risk and climat

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

For this case study the core objective is how to enhance the sponge functioning in a modern, optimized drained landscape.

Within an Austrian LIFE Nature project, gravel banks have been established along the Danube in the Wachau, and dried site-arms have been reconnecte

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

The Nagyszéksós-tó project aimed to safeguard the natural and recreational functions of the protected lake area by improving retention of 1.2 milli

Kamanos Strict Nature Reserve is the largest raised bog (2,434 ha) in the northern Lithuania region (a farming region) with ridge–pool complexes, n

Life for the Burgas Lakes (LIFE08-NAT/BG/000277) was an EU LIFE+ Nature project aiming to secure the long-term conservation of five Annex I bird sp

This project improves the conservation status of floodplain bird species protected in the Natura 2000 sites SPA Dunajské luhy (Slovakia) and SPA Sz

The short term project objectives were to create 250 ha of wetland by raising the water level of the embanked area with a regulating water outlet s

Restoration of two wetlands along the Danube River within Persina Nature Park, through engineering works including sluices, channels, dykes and acc

The action, led by the State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic with NGO partners and funded by LIFE and national sources, set out to restor

WETREST (LIFE05 NAT/SK/000112) in the Záhorie Lowland (western Slovakia) focused on wetland restoration and public awareness, funded by the LIFE pr