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Dam Removal Projects on the Rivers: Risks and Benefits

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 590

Special Issue Editor

Kazimierz Wielki University, Institute of Geography, Kościeleckich Square 8, 85-033 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Interests: river sediment management and modelling; environmental and social-economic impact of dams; dam removal on rivers
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The removal of dams and reservoirs may seem to be an unforeseen and sometimes controversial step in water management. The removal of barriers may be different for each country or region, as each differs greatly in terms of politics, economy, and social and cultural awareness. Arguments and approaches to this problem vary across states and regions, depending on the political system, economy, and culture, as confirmed by the qualitative and quantitative intensities of the dam removal process and its global geographical variation. Currently, it is difficult to identify river systems that are not to some degree regulated partially (single dams) or completely (cascades) by reservoirs retaining water.

This Special Issue of Sustainability compiles papers that aim to provide an overview of dam and reservoir removal projects and the environmental effects of dismantling dams, including a summary of the national/regional implications and constraints, the presentation of various case studies of dam and reservoir removal projects, and the identification of the main stakeholders involved in the debate, as well as their arguments and attitudes towards dam and reservoir removal projects. It is also important to show, in detail, the regionalized attitudes towards this issue in countries around the world, where a mix of social-ecological trends and fiscal attitudes are established.

Dr. Michał Habel
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • decommissioning/removing dams
  • small/low barrier demolition projects
  • river restoration projects
  • return of hydromorphological and ecological river continuity
  • decision-making processes
  • before- and after-removal studies
  • regional policies

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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