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== Knowledge to assess and restore rivers, streams and floodplains ==
The categories below give direct links to the main knowledge topics in the wiki.
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| [[HYMOQE|'''Hydrology and morphology''']]<br /><br />Information on the hydrological regime, river continuity and morphological conditions. || [[:Category:BQE|'''Biological Quality''']]<br /><br />The biological quality elements of the WFD (fish, benthic invertebrates, aquatic vegetation).
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|colspan="2" style="text-align: left;"| [[:Category:River Characterisation|'''River Characterisation''']]<br /><br />A multi-scale and process-based hierarchical framework to characterise river types. 
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| [[:Category:Pressures|'''Pressures''']]<br /><br />Hydromorphological pressures affecting European rivers, streams and floodplains with links to case-studies.<br />
|| [[:Category:Measures|'''Measures''']]<br /><br />Information on sixty types of restoration and mitigation measures with links to case-studies.<br />

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| [[:Category:Ecosystem Services|'''Ecosystem Services (ES)''']]<br /><br />Description of ES in river environments. (Under construction).
|| [[:Category:EU Directives|'''EU Directives''']]<br /><br />Description of the main EU directives and information sources. (Under construction).
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==Know-how on river restoration (Case studies)==
The case studies presented provide practitioners with valuable information about (1) the applicability of different measures, (2) what measures mitigate which pressures and (3) possible effects on hydro-morphology and biology when a project is evaluated.

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|| [[:Category:Case_studies|'''River restoration measures (case studies)''']]<br /><br />A showcase of international case studies of river restoration measures mitigating pressures on river systems. 
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== Planning and evaluating river status and river restoration (Tools) ==
Getting insight in a river system is the key to effective restoration planning. The category 'Tools' provides information on available tools for river assessment and river modelling.<br />

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|| [[:Category:Tools|'''Tools for river restoration planning and design''']]<br /><br />A collection of tools for river restoration planning and design. Sub categories are [[:Category:Hydromorphological_assessment_methods|Hydro-morphological Assessment methods]] and [[:Category:Hydromorphological_models|Hydromorphological models]].  
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== Linking Case studies, Knowledge and Tools ==
De REFORM-wiki contains three main parts: '''know-how (case studies)''', '''knowledge''' and '''evaluation (tools)''' that are all interlinked as shown in the figure below. In practice this means:
* Every river restoration case study contains links to the WFD hydro-morphological quality elements; WFD biological quality elements; pressures and measures relevant for that case study.
* Every listed pressure under [[:Category:Pressures]] shows all the case studies where that pressure has impact.
* Every listed restoration measure under [[:Category:Measures]] shows all the case studies where that measure is applied.
* Every tool listed is linked to the WFD Hydro-morphological and WFD Biological quality elements in [[HYMOQE]] and [[BQE]].
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