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Economic valuation and financing of freshwater ecosystem restoration
The Green Deal and various related EU directives promote restoration of river ecosystems to a more natural functioning. To support upscaling of restoration efforts and mainstreaming the use of Nature-based Solutions towards this goal, this study aims to explore and demonstrate (using cases in the Netherlands and Portugal) new economic tools and narratives for river restoration, which in turn provide the basis for identifying scalable investment models that can help bridge the restoration investment gap.