Abstract
The article is focused on the successful implementation of the global goals of restoring water objects in the context of sustainable development that is impossible without solving the regional problems of local watercourses and reservoirs reviving. It is emphasized that awareness of riparian spaces role as ecological corridors and importance of the healthy functioning of the river network through the revitalisation of even minor watercourses leads to growth attention to this problem in an increasing number of countries. On the example of the Slepiotka River in Katowice and Inhulets River in Kryvyi Rih the aspects, on which attention of revitalisation are accented in European countries and in Ukraine, are presented. In European countries, the basis for the approach to river revitalisation is their functioning as integral ecosystems. In Ukraine, nowadays, the main focus of river restoration is on cleaning them from silt sediment. In this article the approaches to decision of river revitalisation questions are presented. The main of them are: enhancing the ecological functionality of the watercourse as an ecosystem; providing flood protection; increasing the residential, cultural and recreational value; securing permanently sustainable use of watercourses and their river valleys.
Highlights
Nowadays science provides a better understanding of the extent to which our shared progress as human beings is undermined by the ways in which we have gone about achieving it, and too recognizes the Earth as a closely linked human-environment system
Awareness of riparian spaces role as ecological corridors and areas for social activities and of the importance of the healthy functioning of the river network through the revitalisation of even minor watercourses leads to growth attention to this problem in an increasing number of countries
Current approaches to solving the problem of river revitalization have their differences in different countries
Summary
Nowadays science provides a better understanding of the extent to which our shared progress as human beings is undermined by the ways in which we have gone about achieving it, and too recognizes the Earth as a closely linked human-environment system. Increased science-policy-society cooperation can use achievement in our understanding of coupled humanenvironment systems and the shaping of innovative pathways towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Governments can lead the transformation of the world’s social, economic and environmental status towards universally beneficial outcomes when guided by the Sustainable Development Goals. They must recognize that such transformation will involve tough choices and trade-offs. Over the past 10 years, at least 101 economies across the developed and developing world (accounting for more than 90 per cent of global GDP) adopted formal industrial development strategies, which increased opportunities for formulating new ways to promote innovations toward sustainable development
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