Impact of anthropopressure on rivers in Poland and Latvia
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Supervisor in IGSO PAS: Anna Bucała-Hrabia
Contractors: Witold Bochenek, Maksymilian Fukś, Małgorzata Kijowska-Strugała, Łukasz Wiejaczka, Karol Witkowski
Orderer institution: UNDER THE AGREEMENT ON SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION BETWEEN THE POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND THE LATVIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
This project attempts to identify the responses of rivers to anthropogenic changes in Poland and Latvia. Understanding the river responses can be a strong basis for designing the path towards sustainability in urban areas. Three rivers are chosen for our study: the Rudawa (Krakow, Poland) and the Marupite and Tervete (Riga, Latvia). These rivers have undergone major changes over the years as a result of human activity, which has led to increasingly intensive watercourse use, land use and urban development.