Liliana Zaharia, Gabriela Ioana-Toroimac, Gabriela-Adina Moroşanu, Andreea-Cristina Gălie, Marinela Moldoveanu, Ivan Čanjevac, Philippe Belleudy, Mladen Plantak, Nenad Buzjak, Neven Bočić, Cédric Legout, Sylvain Bigot, Nicu Ciobotaru
Conducting hydromorphological assessments for evaluating the ecological status of rivers is a key requirement of the Directive 2000/60/EC (Water Framework Directive - WFD) within European Union (EU) Member States. This paper aims at understanding how this requirement was implemented, through an original comparative review of methodologies for rivers' hydromorphological assessment in three EU Member States, which joined the EU at different times, and with many differences in terms of hydrographic features, socio-economic and water management systems: France, Romania, and Croatia...
April 12, 2018: Journal of Environmental Management