Asian River Restoration Network (ARRN)

The Asian River Restoration Network was established in Nov. 2006 to support the exchange of information relating to environmental restoration of rivers and watersheds. JRRN has a role of ARRN secretariat currently.

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Contact us (Secretariat)


Lofty Chuoh Bldg., 7th Flr.

17-24, Shinkawa 1cho-me, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0033, JAPAN

Foundation for Riverfront Improvement and Restoration
Tel: +81-3-6228-3860
Fax: +81-3-3523-0640
E-mail:info@a-rr.net

PUBLICATIONS

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Practical River Restoration Appraisal Guidance for Monitoring Options: PRAGMO(RRC, November 2011)



04-0001ARRN.jpg This book is a guidance document that aims to assist all practitioners involved in the process of setting monitoring protocols as part of a river restoration project.

>>More detail: PRAGMO press release (PDF 286KB)

-Title: Practical River Restoration Appraisal Guidance for Monitoring Options (PRAGMO)
-Publishing: The River Restoration Centre (RRC)
-Date of publication: November 2011
-URL: http://www.therrc.co.uk/rrc_pragmo.php


Reference Guideline for Restoration by Eco-Compatible Approach in River Basin ver.1 Separate Volume

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ARRN published the “Reference Guideline for Restoration by Eco-Compatible Approach in River Basin ver.1 Separate Volume” in January 2011.
This separate volume was prepared as a supporting material of the “Reference Guideline for Restoration by Eco-Compatible Approach in River Basin ver.1” published in March 2009.


  >>Reference Guideline for Restoration by Eco-Compatible Approach in River Basin ver.1 Separate Volume (PDF 6.3MB)

  >>Reference Guideline for Restoration by Eco-Compatible Approach in River Basin ver.1 (PDF 10.0MB)

Report on ARRN’s Roundtable Meeting 2010 “How to develop technology and Guideline for river restoration through networks”

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ARRN published the “Report on ARRN’s Roundtable Meeting 2010 : How to develop technology and Guideline for river restoration through networks” in January 2011.
The ARRN’s Roundtable Meeting was held in Seoul KOREA on 14th Sep. 2010 as the special session of “8th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics 2010”.


  >>Report on the ARRN’s Roundtable Meeting 2010 (PDF 699KB)

  >>Activity report on the ARRN's Roundtable meeting

The Restoration of Nature in Japan―A Challenge to Ecological Engineering (Japan, May 2010)



12-0055.jpg This book is an English translation of “A Challenge of Nature Restoration from the Standpoint of Ecological Engineering” published in Japanese in 2007.

>>More detail: Leaflet (PDF 312KB)

・Title: The Restoration of Nature in Japan―A Challenge to Ecological Engineering
・Editor: Toshio Hirose
・Translator: Jiro Kikkawa
・Date of publication: May 2010

Past and present approaches to river rehabilitation in Japan (Dr. Ulrika Åberg, April 2009)

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Past and present approaches to river rehabilitation in Japan 980KB

- Source: Dr. Ulrika Åberg, Researcher of the School of Environment, University of Leeds, UK

- This file was presented in the Session 7 in the River Restoration Network Conference held in UK, April 2009.



>> Download (PDF 1MB)


>> Exchange between Dr. Ulrika and JRRN secretariat in June 2008


>> River Restoration Network Conference 2009

Amenity Rehabilitation or Ecosystem Rehabilitation? (Dr. Hyoseop Woo, September 2009)

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Amenity Rehabilitation or Ecosystem Rehabilitation? (PDF 6.3MB)


- Source: Dr. Hyoseop Woo, Senior Research Fellow of Korea Institute of Construction Technology(KICT), Former Secretary General of Korea River Restoration Network (KRRN)

- This file was presented in the Session 3 "Cases Studies of Urban River Rehabilitation" in the World City Water Forum held in Korea, August 2009, and presented again in the 7th Joint Seminar on Ecological Engineering between Korea and Japan at the annual meeting of Ecology and Civil Engineering Society in September 2009 in Saitama, Japan, with some more clarifications and additions by Dr. Woo.


>> Download (PDF 6.3MB)

Master Plan of Four-River Restoration (MLTM, August 2009)

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Master Plan of Four-River Restoration (PDF 5.4MB)


- Source: Korea River Restoration Network (KRRN)

- This document introduces the outline of “Four River Restoration Project” in Korea.


>> Download (PDF 5.4MB)

Reference Guideline for Restoration by Eco-Compatible Approach in River Basin ver.1 (ARRN, March 2009)



05-0002eng.JPG In this guideline, basic ideas and implementation approaches for river restoration is explained in a comprehensible form so that even non-specialists who are interested in improvement of the river environment can understand them easily as a primer to the “River restoration technical guideline” aimed at by the ARRN in the future.
Please contact to the ARRN secretariat in detail.
( secre@a-rr.net )


・Title: Reference Guideline for Restoration by Eco-Compatible Approach in River Basin ver.1
・Organization: Asian River Restoration Network (ARRN)
・Date of issue: March 2009

>> Download (PDF 10.0MB)

Report of Riverfront Research Institute No.18 (Japan, 2007.9)



05-0001.JPG This report contains a collection of selected papers and reports prepared as a result of the latest activities in 2006 of the Foundation for Riverfront Improvement and Restoration.


・Title: Report of Riverfront Research Institute No.18
・Organization: Foundation for Riverfront Improvement and Restoration(RFC)
・Country: Japan
・Date of issue: September 2007

>> Covers, Preface and Contents (PDF 1,164KB)
>> Abstruct (PDF 78KB)
>> Report (Language: Japanese only) Go to RFC database