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Providing the environmentally healthy conditions in rivers is main prerequisite to guarantee the sustainable river ecosystems development. This is connected to implementation of various measures accounting the increasing anthropogenic and climate change impacts. For the purpose on local, national and international level various tools and practices are implemented following the adopted legislation. For the countries of European Union Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD) stipulates main framework for community action in the a...

Urban ecosystems function and maintenance are closely connected to the humans being, their interests and activities. As a result in many cases are observed serious anthropogenic works, causing a significant impact on the natural processes and conditions. Consequently urban ecosystem services become more specific, requiring more individual approaches for the related processes clarification and assessments. The understanding of such implementation recently is under a broad extension. Practices in the area widely inc...