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The Restoration of Degraded River Basins: A Review of the Ave River Research Project

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Restoration of Degraded Rivers: Challenges, Issues and Experiences

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Degraded river basins result from a complex mixture of factors; most often the socio-political-institutional ones prevail. Recovering from such situations is immensely complex, as required costs quite often become impossible to pay.

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  1. Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2825, Monte da Caparica, Portugal

    J. R. Da Costa

  2. Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Av. do Brasil, 101, P-1799, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

    M. A. Santos

  3. School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA

    D. P. Loucks

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Da Costa, J.R., Santos, M.A., Loucks, D.P. (1998). The Restoration of Degraded River Basins: A Review of the Ave River Research Project. In: Loucks, D.P. (eds) Restoration of Degraded Rivers: Challenges, Issues and Experiences. NATO ASI Series, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2894-2_5

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