• DOI:10.2166/WP.2013.158
• Corpus ID: 153768378

Towards sustainable management of Mediterranean river basins: policy recommendations on management aspects of temporary streams

@article{Nikolaidis2013TowardsSM,
  title={Towards sustainable management of Mediterranean river basins: policy recommendations on management aspects of temporary streams},
  author={Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis and Leeda Demetropoulou and Jochen Froebrich and Claire Jacobs and Francesc Gallart and Narc{\'i}s Prat and Antonio Lo Porto and C. Campana and V. Papadoulakis and Nikolaos Skoulikidis and Thierry Davy and Giovanni Bidoglio and Fayçal Bouraoui and Mike J. Kirkby and Marie-George Tournoud and Stefano Polesello and Gonzalo G. Barber{\'a} and David M. Cooper and Rosa G{\'o}mez and Mar{\'i}a del Mar S{\'a}nchez-Montoya and J{\'e}r{\^o}me Latron and Anna Maria De Girolamo and Jean-Louis Perrin},
  journal={Water Policy},
  year={2013},
  volume={15},
  pages={830-849}
}

• Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis, Leeda Demetropoulou, +20 authors J. Perrin
• Published 1 October 2013
• Environmental Science
• Water Policy

In 2011, the European Council stressed the significance of water quality for sustainable development in Europe
and emphasized the need for better integration of the water policy objectives into the Common Agriculture Policy reform in rural areas. Since 2000, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) has required the EU Member States to
target good ecological status for their water bodies. However, the implementation of the Directive for the numerous
Mediterranean temporary streams has been delayed indicating the need for elaboration of the tools and
methods that address the special characteristics of such water bodies. This requirement has been addressed by
the recently completed MIRAGE project. In the context of the recent publication of the European Commission’s
Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Waters, the MIRAGE-proposed framework for the characterization of the ecohydrological
dynamics and the systematic description of the measured impact for temporary rivers could bring
considerable added value to the EU revision of all relevant water policies. The project recommends additions
to WFD articles including an explicit definition of temporary rivers, adaptation of environmental objectives to
their peculiarities and establishment of a proper method to determine the initial status and specific actions in
River Basin Management Plans.