Author(s): Nena Ioannidou; Dionissis Latinopoulos; Anastasia Mirli; Cate A. Bakalakou; Maria Karasani; Chrysoula Ntislidou; Ifigenia Kagalou; Christos S. Akratos

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Abstract: More than half of the European (EU) water bodies still lag behind the 2000/60/EC directive due to various reasons. A complete, updated, and holistic knowledge base is central in forming a proper monitoring suite, within a tailored management scheme. In Eye4Water project, a series of hierarchical procedures was followed to properly describe and quantify the status quo of two lesser researched river basins and finally assess the knowledge gaps. The aim is to gather the current knowledge through systemic literature review in a hyper-matrix, to organize it through conceptual models, assisting management, embedded with indices, map it and finally assess the actual knowledge gaps to form properly the monitoring targets. The case studies are two heavily modified (partly or entirely) riverine systems, located in Thrace, in rural peri-urban basins, having tributaries with intermittent flow, fragmented habitats, receiving multiple pressures, but being still systems of major economic and environmental importance for the area. The methodology that was followed revealed important lack in our knowledge on four main categories: pressures, environmental quality, monitoring systems and land/resources uses. The identified gaps may hamper the decision making but, in early stages, can describe a “roadmap” to adjust the monitoring scheme and prioritize management goals.

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Year: 2022