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This article explores the impact of public entrepreneurship on the Cheonggye Stream Restoration Project (CSRP) as an urban renewal project. The article presents the four elements of entrepreneurship: innovativeness, risk-taking, proactiveness, and network governance. Innovativeness was an important motive to start the CSRP. The risk-taking and proactive leadership of the mayor had a positive effect on boosting internal cohesion among public employees and implementing the CSRP. Network governance helped manage conflicts among the related stakeholders and attract support to the CSRP. The article suggests that it was the effort to share the spirit and practice of public (or social) entrepreneurship with the people -- including the general citizens, public servants, experts, and interest groups -- that eventually led to the success of the restoration project. Adapted from the source document.

This article explores the impact of public entrepreneurship on the Cheonggye Stream Restoration Project (CSRP) as an urban renewal project. The article presents the four elements of entrepreneurship: innovativeness, risk-taking, proactiveness, and network governance. Innovativeness was an important motive to start the CSRP. The risk-taking and proactive leadership of the mayor had a positive effect on boosting internal cohesion among public employees and implementing the CSRP. Network governance helped manage conflicts among the related stakeholders and attract support to the CSRP. The article suggests that it was the effort to share the spirit and practice of public (or social) entrepreneurship with the people -- including the general citizens, public servants, experts, and interest groups -- that eventually led to the success of the restoration project. Adapted from the source document.

Agriculture is widespread across the EU and has caused considerable impacts on freshwater ecosystems. To revert the degradation caused to streams and rivers, research and restoration efforts have been developed to recover ecosystem functions and services, with the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) playing a significant role in strengthening the progress. Analysing recent peer-reviewed European literature (2009–2016), this review explores 1) the conflicts and difficulties faced when restoring agriculturally impacted streams, 2) the aspects relevant to effectively reconcile agricultural land uses and healthy riverine ecosystems and 3) the effects and potential shortcomings of the first WFD management cycle. Our analysis reveals significant progress in restoration efforts, but it also demonstrates an urgent need for a higher number and detail of restoration projects reported in the peer-reviewed literature. The first WFD cycle ended in 2015 without reaching the goal of good ecological status in many European water-bodies. Addressing limitations reported in recent papers, including difficulties in stakeholder integration and importance of small headwater streams, is crucial. Analysing recent developments on stakeholder engagement through structured participatory processes will likely reduce perception discrepancies and increase stakeholder interest during the next WFD planning cycle. Despite an overall dominance of nutrient-related research, studies are spreading across many important topics (e.g. stakeholder management, land use conflicts, climate change effects), which may play an important role in guiding future policy. Our recommendations are important for the second WFD cycle because they 1) help secure the development and dissemination of science-based restoration strategies and 2) provide guidance for future research needs

Launch of the Chalk Stream Strategy's Implementation Plan by Charles Rangeley-Wilson, Chair of the Chalk Stream Restoration Group

This research is part of the SWITCH Project (Sustainable Water Management Improves Tomorrow's Cities' Health), which is coordinated by UNESCO and constitutes of a 32 institutions working net. Among these institutions are the Belo Horizonte Government (PBH) and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). One of the interventions conducted by PBH is the Drenurbs Program that aims at the restoration and environmental sanitation of municipal watersheds. Considering the importance of assessing the stream restoration interventions proposed by Drenurbs, the main objective of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of the results obtained by the Baleares creek restoration project in Belo Horizonte. The following assessment tools were used: (i) monitoring of water quality (physical and chemical parameters); and (ii) survey with the population in the watershed. Tools (i) were assessed in two distinct periods: pre-restoration (September 2003-November 2006) and postrestoration (February 2008- February 2009). The survey was done once in October 2008. The water quality results revealed a significant improvement in all assessed parameters between pre restoration and post restorations periods, besides a change in the patterns of the average seasonal concentrations of the monitored indicators. The survey indicated that the results of the intervention were well accepted by the population, with good perspectives in relation to the deployment of similar projects in other urban watersheds. However, the preference for a "sanitary avenue" is still relevant. The results could subsidize future assessments of the interventions realized by the Drenurbs in Baleares creek.