TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable lake restoration: From challenges to solutions
AU - Tammeorg, Olga
AU - Chorus, Ingrid
AU - Spears, Bryan
AU - Nõges, Peeter
AU - Nürnberg, Gertrud K.
AU - Tammeorg, Priit
AU - Søndergaard, Martin
AU - Jeppesen, Erik
AU - Paerl, Hans
AU - Huser, Brian
AU - Horppila, Jukka
AU - Jilbert, Tom
AU - Budzyńska, Agnieszka
AU - Dondajewska‐Pielka, Renata
AU - Gołdyn, Ryszard
AU - Haasler, Sina
AU - Hellsten, Seppo
AU - Härkönen, Laura H.
AU - Kiani, Mina
AU - Kozak, Anna
AU - Kotamäki, Niina
AU - Kowalczewska‐Madura, Katarzyna
AU - Newell, Silvia
AU - Nurminen, Leena
AU - Nõges, Tiina
AU - Reitzel, Kasper
AU - Rosińska, Joanna
AU - Ruuhijärvi, Jukka
AU - Silvonen, Soila
AU - Skov, Christian
AU - Važić, Tamara
AU - Ventelä, Anne‐Mari
AU - Waajen, Guido
AU - Lürling, Miquel
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Sustainable management of lakes requires us to overcome ecological, economic, and social challenges. These challenges can be addressed by focusing on achieving ecological improvement within a multifaceted, co‐beneficial context. In‐lake restoration measures may promote more rapid ecosystem responses than is feasible with catchment measures alone, even if multiple interventions are needed. In particular, we identify restoration methods that support the overarching societal target of a circular economy through the use of nutrients, sediments, or biomass that are removed from a lake, in agriculture, as food, or for biogas production. In this emerging field of sustainable restoration techniques, we show examples, discuss benefits and pitfalls, and flag areas for further research and development. Each lake should be assessed individually to ensure that restoration approaches will effectively address lake‐specific problems, do not harm the target lake or downstream ecosystems, are cost‐effective, promote delivery of valuable ecosystem services, minimize conflicts in public interests, and eliminate the necessity for repeated interventions. Achieving optimal, sustainable results from lake restoration relies on multidisciplinary research and close interactions between environmental, social, political, and economic sectors.
AB - Sustainable management of lakes requires us to overcome ecological, economic, and social challenges. These challenges can be addressed by focusing on achieving ecological improvement within a multifaceted, co‐beneficial context. In‐lake restoration measures may promote more rapid ecosystem responses than is feasible with catchment measures alone, even if multiple interventions are needed. In particular, we identify restoration methods that support the overarching societal target of a circular economy through the use of nutrients, sediments, or biomass that are removed from a lake, in agriculture, as food, or for biogas production. In this emerging field of sustainable restoration techniques, we show examples, discuss benefits and pitfalls, and flag areas for further research and development. Each lake should be assessed individually to ensure that restoration approaches will effectively address lake‐specific problems, do not harm the target lake or downstream ecosystems, are cost‐effective, promote delivery of valuable ecosystem services, minimize conflicts in public interests, and eliminate the necessity for repeated interventions. Achieving optimal, sustainable results from lake restoration relies on multidisciplinary research and close interactions between environmental, social, political, and economic sectors.
KW - Sustainable lake restoration
KW - Socio-economic benefits
KW - Eutrophication
KW - Nutrient recycling
KW - Cathment and in-lake measurements
U2 - 10.1002/wat2.1689
DO - 10.1002/wat2.1689
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2049-1948
VL - 11
JO - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water
JF - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water
IS - 2
M1 - e1689
ER -