The Danube River and Western Black Sea Coast Complex Transboundary Management

About this book

The Danube River and Western Black Sea Coast: Complex Transboundary Management is a brand-new volume in the Elsevier Ecohydrology from Catchment to Coast Series. It focuses on the second-largest river in Europe, and the most transboundary river basin encompassing 19 countries. The chapters focus on the changes in the area in the past decade and a way forward. Made up of three parts, the book starts with an overview of what to expect and what the content covers, it goes on to cover The Danube River and its recipient, the Black Sea including sediment balance, water quality, hydromorphology and aquatic biodiversity. Section two covers the key pressures and implementation of transboundary water management such as aquatic resources, invasive species, climate change and stakeholder participation. Section three assesses visions for a sustainable future in the Danube River Basin with a look to applicable sustainability, ecosystem and human interaction and improving biodiversity through floodplains. The book concludes with a summary and outlook.

Contents

1. Theory and Practice - Science meets Management

Part 1: The Danube River and its recipient, the Black Sea
2. Transformation of the socio-ecohydrological system of the Danube River Basin and the adjacent Black Sea coast
3. Hydrology and Hydromorphology
4. Sediment balance in the Danube River Basin and sediment load to the Black Sea
5. Water quality of the Danube River and Black Sea
6. Aquatic biodiversity in the Danube River Basin
7. The Delta, linking the Danube River and the Black Sea
8. The coast and the shelf of the Black Sea

Part 2: Key Pressures and Implementation of Transboundary Water Management
9. Hydromorphological alterations and overexploitation of aquatic resources
10. Invasive Alien Species (IAS) in the Danube River Basin and the Black Sea Coast
11. Climate Change - specific consequences for the Danube River Basin and the Black Sea Coast
12. Transnational management of water bodies in the Danube and Black Sea region
13. Law and Politics: Protected areas in the Danube River Basin - implementation matters
14. The bottom-up approach: Stakeholder

Part 3: Visions for a sustainable future in the Danube River Basin
15. The application of sustainability
16. The concept of ecosystem services and human use in the Danube River Basin)
17. The key role of floodplains in nature conservation: How to improve the current status of aquatic biodiversity? Summary, Synthesis and Outlook
18. New concepts of science, technology and social behavior: Viewing the DR and BS as socio-ecological systems and consequences for political implementation in the Danube River Basin

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Biography

Retired Senior Scientist, Switzerland Dr Bernd Cyffka has been heading the Floodplain Institute Neuburg/Danube since 2006. He is the country representative for Germany in the IAD (International Association for Danube Research) as well as head of the expert group 'Floodplain Ecology' in the same association since 2015. His research interests are in the fields of floodplain ecology, restoration, ecosystem services, hydromorphology and ecohydrology. He authored or co-authored more than 50 publications in indexed journals and many conference proceedings, book chapters and other scientific articles as well as four monographs. Furthermore, he edited or co-edited ten books. He was and is involved in several national and international projects, partly in a leading position, mainly in the Danube Catchment and Central Asia. He also supervised several students at BSc, MSc and PhD levels.

Dr Thomas Haine is a full professor at the Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna since 2017 and has been managing director of the research institute WasserCluster Lunz from 2008 to 2020. He was elected as president of the IAD (International Association for Danube Research) from 2011 to 2016 and is currently vice president until the end of 2021. He is an active member of several professional international organizations and networks. His research focuses on aquatic ecosystem-human interactions in riverine landscapes. He coordinated and was actively involved in several international and national projects, and established cooperation with many national and international organizations. He authored more than 120 publications in SCI journals and more than 100 conference proceedings, book chapters and other scientific articles.

Dr Nike Sommerwerk is a senior researcher at Museum fur Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science (MfN) since 2017 with almost 20 years of international work experience in human-ecosystem interactions and biodiversity research. Dr Sommerwerk was the scientific coordinator of the UN project "Development of International Water Quality Guidelines for Ecosystems - IWQGES"; its results were adopted in 2017 by the UN Environmental Assembly, UNEA-3 and published in 2018. She gained her PhD at the Freie Universitat Berlin (FU) and at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and published 10 peer-reviewed publications, 4 book chapters, 5 position papers and guidelines.

Dr Cristina Sandu is a former researcher in freshwater ecology, member of the International Association for Danube Research (IAD) since 2002 and president of IAD between 2017-2021. Since 2009, she has represented the IAD within the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), cooperating mainly on the Danube River Basin Management Plan, the key instrument for water management in the Danube Basin. Between 2012 and 2018, she coordinated the establishment of the Danube Sturgeon Task Force and the implementation of the sturgeon conservation program Sturgeon 2020 in the Danube and Black Sea regions. Her expertise comprises freshwater ecology, effects of anthropogenic impacts on river and lake ecosystems, sturgeon/aquatic biodiversity conservation and implementation of water policy in the Danube Region. She was involved in over 20 international and national research projects in the Danube Basin and has over 50 publications in indexed journals, book chapters and other scientific articles.