Ways to a Near-natural Landscape Water Balance

© Ecologic Institute, 2025

Ways to a Near-natural Landscape Water Balance

Ecologic Institute at the DWA Conference

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Essen, Germany
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Documentation of the BfN symposium 2024

At this year's DWA Conference on River Basin Management, Dr. Benjamin Kupilas explored how landscapes can be designed to store water more effectively, buffer extreme events, and simultaneously support biodiversity. His talk highlighted the importance of restoring natural hydrological processes as a cornerstone of climate mitigation and adaptation, nature conservation, and resilient regional development. A detailed description of the topic and its background is available in the German version.

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natural water management, renaturation, nature-based solutions, sponge landscapes, river basin management, climate adaptation, water retention, biodiversity, resilience, drought, flooding, moorland rewetting, floodplain renaturation, green and blue infrastructure, multifunctional land use, ecosystem services, sponge city, sustainable landscape development, climate resilience, water management, nature and resource conservation, ecological infrastructure, monitoring, data access, regional resilience strategies
regional sponge and river landscapes, floodplains, moorlands, agricultural landscapes, towns, river basins
Renaturation methods, rewetting, floodplain connection, near-natural forest development, multifunctional land use concepts, development of regional models, expanded process understanding (vegetation, soils, water), monitoring methods, data-based monitoring, integrative planning, participatory approaches, cross-sector cooperation, model projects, sponge city concepts, ecohydrological methods, success monitoring, implementation of nature-based solutions
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