Mainstreaming freshwater restoration requires supporting multiple economic sectors to collaborate

Achieving the restoration of freshwater ecosystems at pace and scale depends on the active involvement of many societal groups including a range of economic sectors. We thus need to ‘mainstream’ working with nature across all sectors of society. This brief explores opportunities and challenges to achieve mainstreaming. It highlights a need to strengthen coordination and collaboration between economic sectors and shows how to enable this through existing institutions and approaches.

Authors: Kerry Waylen1 , Kirsty Blackstock1 , Sebastian Birk2, Anna Bérczi-Siket3, Esther Carmen1 , Silke-Silvia Drexler4, Rebecca Gray1 , Alhassan Ibrahim1 , Solen le Clech5

(1 The James Hutton Institute, Scotland; 2University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; 3WWF Hungary, 4Boku University, Austria; 5Wageningen University, the Netherlands)