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NewsletterVol. 5(Nov.20102010)

ARRN Newsletter
Asian River Restoration Network

http://www.a-rr.net/

The Asian River Restoration Network (ARRN) is an Asian-based non-political network supporting theexchange of information related to environmental restoration of rivers and watersheds, through thepromotion of collaboration between participants of the world. The network aims to contribute to thedevelopment of technology and knowledge for river and watershed restoration through its activities.

ContentsPages

ARRN Event News………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1Report from ARRN Board ……………………………………………………………………………………………………4Special Topics……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5
Membership Benefits (How to become an ARRN member)……………………………………………………………6ARRN Event News
ARRN’s 7th International Forum on Waterfront and Watershed Restoration(14 Sep. 2010, Seoul, KOREA)The 7th International Forum on Waterfront andWatershed Restoration was held in Seoul, Korea, on
Tuesday, September 14, 2010. This event was held at aspecial session of ISE 2010 (International Symposium onEcohydraulics).

With the participation of Dr. Bart Fokkens, President of
the European Centre for River Restoration (ECRR), whogave a keynote speech at the symposium, participants
exchanged valuable findings and opinions throughpioneering experience in river restoration.

7th ARRN Forum

Opening Address by Dr. Tamai

The 7th International Forum on Waterfront and Watershed Restoration

Time and Date: September 14, 2010 14:00 – 15:30, Venue: COEX complex, Seoul KOREA
ProgramChair: Dr. Naoki Shirakawa (Tsukuba Univ. Japan), Co-Chair: Dr. Sukhwan Jang (Daejin Univ. Korea)

Opening Address
Dr. Nobuyuki Tamai (Chairperson of ARRN)
Dr. Bart Fokkens (European Centre for River Restoration, Netherlands)
Lecture 1
River Restoration in Europe and the European Centre for River Restoration
Lecture 2 Dr. Wang Xingong(Yellow River Water Resources Protection Scientific Institute, China)
Study On Environmental Flows and Eco-Restoration Practice In Yellow River Delta Wetlands
Lecture 3 Dr. Masatoshi Denda (Water Environment Research Group, Public Works Research Institute, Japan)
Improvement of Individual-based Models by Using GIS and a Wild Animal Auto-Tracking SystemLecture 4
Dr. Sunok Jeon (Eco-STAR Project, Korea)
Development of Technology for Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration in Korea
Lecture 5
Dr. Weon Jae Kim (Korea Institute of Construction Technology, Korea)
A Prototype of Decision Support System for Ecological Urban River Restoration

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Lecture 1: Dr. Bart Fokkens
River Restoration in Europe and the European
Centre for River Restoration
The lecturer introduced restoration of the continuity
between the Danube and habitats in the basin as agood case example of river restoration. He explained
projects in Austria, Bulgaria, and Croatia. In the latter
half, he delivered a lecture on the development
process of ECRR and its future activities.

Lecture 4: Dr. Sunok Jeon
DevelopmentofTechnologyEcosystem Restoration in Korea

forAquaticThe Water Environment Management Master Plan
2006-2015 formulated by the Ministry of Environment,
Korea clearly stipulates “creating ecologically healthy
rivers where people can swim with fish”. In 2007, theCenter for Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration (CAER) wasestablished. In the lecture, the lecturer introduced theefforts of eco-star projects aimed at technologicaldevelopment for the restoration of aquatic ecosystems,
and specific examples of restoration.

Lecture 2: Dr. Wang Xingong
Study On Environmental Flows and Eco-Restoration
Practice In Yellow River Delta Wetlands
The Yellow River, which runs through nine provinces, has
problems mainly of water quality and drought. Projects
for water resource management of the Yellow River are
carried out through technical cooperation withNetherland. This time, the lecturer gave a lecture on
surveys in the Yellow River Delta, which is a stopping
point for migrant birds, and consideration ofenvironmental flows to manage the delta.

Lecture 5: Dr. Weon Jae Kim
A Prototype of Decision Support System for
Ecological Urban River Restoration
To restore urban rivers, it is important to carry out
research including water resource evaluation, ensure anadequate supply of water resources, and set up adecision support system. The lecturer made apresentation on research for suggesting a prototype ofa decision support system to manage the water quality
and quantity of urban rivers.

Lecture 3: Dr. Masatoshi Denda
Improvement of Individual-based Models by Using
GIS and a Wild Animal Auto-Tracking SystemThe lecturer made a presentation about improvingmathematical models called individual-based models(IBMs) based on behavior analyses and use of space bybadgers in the Kita River using an auto-tracking system,
to consider conservation of wild animal habitats.

Materials for each lecture given in the forum can be downloaded from the website shown below.
Download:
http://www.a-rr.net/report/2010/09/the_7th_international_forum_on.html

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ARRN’s Roundtable Meeting

How to develop technology and guidelines for river restoration through networks(14 Sep. 2010, Seoul, KOREA)
ARRN’s Roundtable Meeting for sharing river restoration
technology in Asia was held in Seoul, Korea, on Tuesday,
September 14, 2010.
This event was held following the 7th ARRN International
Forum. Under the theme of “How to develop
technology and guidelines for river restoration throughnetworks,” open discussions were held actively with Dr.
Bart Fokkens, President of the European Centre for River
Restoration (ECRR) and other invited panelists who areexperts from Japan, China, and Korea.
The minutes of the Roundtable Meeting will be openedin the ARRN website soon, and discussion outputs arereflected in the updated Guideline for River Restoration
Ver. 2 drawn up by ARRN.

Handout

Minutes of Meeting

Participants

Roundtable Meeting

ARRN’s Roundtable Meeting:
How to develop technology and guidelines for river restoration through networks
Time and Date: September 14, 2010 16:00 – 17:30, Venue: COEX complex, Seoul KOREA

Chair: Dr. Nobuyuki Tamai (ARRN Chairperson), Co-Chair: Dr. BongHee Lee (Secretary General of KRRN)

Discussion Points- Role of River Restoration network- Development of ARRN River Restoration Guideline

Panelist- Dr. Bart Fokkens (President of European Centre for River Restoration, ECRR)- Dr. Dongya Sun (China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research,
Secretary General of China River Restoration Network)- Dr. Naoki Shirakawa (Tsukuba University, JRRN Technical Committee)- Dr. Sukhwan Jang (Daejin University, KRRN Technical Committee)

Dr.Nobuyuki Tamai

Dr. Bongee Lee

Dr.Bart Fokkens

Dr.Dongya Sun

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Dr.Sukhwan Jang

Dr.Naoki Shirakawa

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Report from ARRN Board
5th ARRN Governing Council Meeting (15 September 2010, Seoul KOREA)
The 5th ARRN Governing Council Meeting was held inSeoul, Korea, on Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
At the beginning of the meeting, Professor Nobuyuki
Tamai was reappointed as Chairperson of the ARRN,and JRRN was reappointed as the ARRN Secretariat.
After a report was made on network activities over thelast year, discussions and exchanges of opinion took
place about holding events (e.g. forums andworkshops), developing websites, preparing a guideline
for river restoration, and cooperation with othernetworks.
The ARRN activities for 2011 can be summarized asfollows.

5th GCMARRN Action Plan for 2011 (from Nov. 2010 to Oct. 2011)
Activity
Administration

Implementation Plan (responsibility)- Information & Technical Committee discussion by email (Committee )- 6th Governing Council Meeting around Oct. or Nov. 2011 in Tokyo (ARRN secretariat)

Website(database,toolbox etc.)- Setting up and development of KRRN website (KRRN)

Newsletter- Once in a half year publication in 2011 (ARRN secretariat with CRRN and KRRN contribution)

News mail- Test dispatch of JRRN news mail to ARRN members in English monthly (Headline only) (ARRN secretariat)

Forum andWorkshop- 8th International Forum as small sized workshop(to be held with the 6th GCM around Oct. or Nov. 2011 inTokyo ) (ARRN secretariat)- Other workshops / Regional Seminar (each-RRN)

ReferenceGuideline- Collection and Sharing of major examples of river restoration projects in each country (each-RRN)- Accumulation of examples of river restoration projects in each-RRN website (each-RRN)- Updating ARRN website (ARRN secretariat)- Collection and Sharing of existing technical guideline of river restoration in each country (each-RRN)- Preparing for ARRN River Restoration Reference Guideline vol.2 (Oct. 2011) (Technical Committee)

Publication- ARRN River Restoration Guideline vol.2 (Nov. 2011) (ARRN secretariat)

PublicRelations (PR)- Exchange with related organizations on river restoration (ARRN secretariat with each RRN contribution)- Presentation in international symposium or events (ARRN secretariat & RRN)
- Meeting with related organization in Asia and other region (ARRN secretariat with each RRN contribution)

Membership- Expansion to Other Asian countries (ARRN secretariat with each RRN contribution)

Participants
Governing Council Member:
Nobuyuki TAMAI (ARRN Chairperson, Graduate School of Kanazawa Gakuin Univ.),
Junzo SAGO (ARRN/JRRN Secretary General, Foundation for Riverfront Improvement and Restoration), Bong HeeLEE (KRRN Secretary General, Saman Corp.), Dongya SUN (CRRN Secretary General, China Institute of Water
Resources and Hydropower Research),
Jeong Seok YANG (KRRN Information Committee, Kookmin Univ.), Suk Hwan JANG (KRRN Technical Committee,Daejin Univ.), Jinyong ZHAO (CRRN deputy Information Committee, China Institute of Water Resources andHydropower Research), Hongwu TAN (CRRN deputy Technical Committee, China Institute of Water Resources andHydropower Research), Kazumasa ITO (JRRN Information Committee, CTI Engineering Co, LTD), Naoki SHIRAKAWA(JRRN Technical Committee, Univ. of Tsukuba)

ARRN Secretariat:

Sayumi NUMATA(JRRN secretariat, Foundation for Riverfront Improvement and Restoration), Tatsushi KIMURA(JRRNsecretariat, CTI Engineering Co, LTD), Akira WADA (JRRN secretariat, CTI Engineering Co, LTD)

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Special Topics
8th International symposium on Ecohydraulics, ISE2010 (September 13-16, 2010, Seoul, Korea)

Update of ”Reference Guideline for Restoration by Eco-Compatible Approach in River Basin”
The 8th International symposium on Ecohydraulics 2010 was held in Seoul, Korea from 13th to 16th of September
2010. With the main theme of “Making a Bridge between Ecology and Hydraulics, and Exploring Society's New Needto Live with Nature,” more than 500 river environment experts got together from 30 countries around the world.
The 8th symposium this year was held in Korea as an event hosted by the Korea Water Resources Association, which
was the first one in Asia. The former Secretary-General of the Korea River Restoration Network, Dr. Hyoseop Woo,
served as the chairperson of the local committee in Korea.
The ARRN Secretariat had a presentation entitled “Characteristics of River Restoration in Japan and Case Studies” inthe section meeting under the theme of “River Restoration”, and set up an exhibition booth for ARRN where outlineof ARRN and domestic networks, and case examples of river restoration in Japan, China, and Korea wereintroduced. Website of ISE2010 : http://ise-2010.org/

Opening Speech

ARRN’s Presentation

ARRN’s Exhibition booth

13th International Riversymposium (October 11-14, 2010, Perth, Australia)
The 13th International Riversymposium was held in Perth, Australia,
from Monday, 11th to Thursday, 14th of October 2010.
The ARRN Secretariat presented a paper entitled “Development ofthe Asian River Restoration Network for Knowledge Sharing” in thesection called “Moving water through cities”, and mingled with riverrestoration organizations such as the Australian River Restoration
Centre (ARRC).
Website of Riversymposium 2010 : http://www.riversymposium.com/

Seminar Report from “Japan River Restoration Network (JRRN)”JRRN promotes seminar as “JRRN Mini-Seminar on River Environment” to provide opportunities for JRRN members
and non members to share and exchange their knowledge and experiences on river restoration.
The 5th JRRN Seminar: “River restoration through watershed cooperation: Mersey Basin Campaign, U.K.”- Date: May 11, 2010
- Lecturer: Mr. Walter Menzies (Chief Executive, Mersey Basin Campaign, U.K)
- Subject: A partnership approach to catchment wide river restoration: Mersey Basin Campaign experience, U.K.
The lecture started with historical descriptions of the industrial revolution in Liverpool,
Britain where the Mersey runs, to its decline. He described the water deterioration ofthe Mersey around the 1980s, using pictures from those days. Then, he discussed theMersey Basin Campaign with three central pillars: economics, society, and restorationof natural environment. He explained its objectives, concept, and strategies in detail,as well as specific activities over the past 25 years and key factors for the success ofthe campaign.
The 6th JRRN Seminar: “China’s challenge: against flood, drought and water pollution under climate change.”- Date: September 8, 2010
- Lecturer: Prof. Xu Zongxue (Professor at Beijing Normal University/Deputy Dean, College of Water Sciences)- Subject: China’s challenge: against flood, drought and water pollution under climate changeFirst, the lecturer introduced the latest situation of damage caused by floods anddroughts in China, using pictures. In addition, he outlined water resource managementin China, explained flood and drought control in detail, and measures for waterquality; he also explained the future direction and ideas of the Chinese government’s
water resource management policy.

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Membership Benefits (How to become an ARRN member)
Joining the ARRN is Free!
To become member of ARRN, please contact tosecre@a-rr.net by email.

Membership BenefitsEasy obtaining of domestic and foreign information on river restoration through website, email, anddirect contact to ARRN secretariat or other ARRN members as following; Latest news, topics, projects, experiences, lessons, case studies
 International and domestic events such as seminar and workshops
 Standard books, technical guidelines, video images, etc.
Holding opportunity to introduce member’s organization and their activities to other ARRN members
A coordinated business with various foreign countries or organizations
Holding management support such as international seminar, workshops and establishment of regionalriver restoration network by ARRN secretariat

Possible Tasks(1)Members will participate in ARRN with commitment to use their own resources and to work effectively inpartnership with other members that are collaborating in the network. Members will support theobjectives of ARRN described in the charter. ( http://www.a-rr.net/charter.html )(2)Members can freely inspect the Web site, and moreover, useful information on river restoration in yourorganization and your region can be freely sent through the Web site for other members.
(3)Members positively join for ARRN events such as international forum and the workshop by each RRN
sponsoring. Also, every member can hold original workshop by receiving the backup of ARRN or RRN.
(4)Members cooperate positively when the specialist's technical advice is required or the advanced caseinvestigation committee is sent to another region.
(5)Members share the information sent by ARRN with related persons in your organization.

Procedure for joining ARRN

(1) An organization which wants to join ARRN is requested to submit a membership application form byemail.
(2) The membership application form submitted by the organization is judged by the Secretary General andthe Chairperson of ARRN.
(3) After the Chairperson of ARRN approves the membership application form, the organization becomes
the ARRN member as a Non-RRN organization.
(4) ARRN secretariat will send email soon to the contact person named in the application form.
(5) When plural groups gathered in a certain country or regions, the ARRN secretariat supports theestablishment of each RRN. The establishment of new RRN will be judged by ARRN governing council
meeting.
Note)
In a Registration
country/region
which
RRN secretariat has already established, applicants to ARRN should beMember
URL:
http://www.a-rr.net/jp/en/arrn/member.html
registered through the RRN secretariat. (China, Korea, and Japan)
ARRN Membership Application Form for organization (MS-WORD:601kB) is available here.
http://www.a-rr.net/jp/en/arrn/docs/appform.doc

Asian River Restoration Network[Secretariat]
Foundation for Riverfront Improvement and Restoration (RFC)
Lofty Chuoh Bldg., 7th Flr. 17-24, Shinkawa 1cho-me, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0033, JAPANTEL: +81-3-6228-3860 FAX: +81-3-3523-0640 E-mail: secre@a-rr.net Website: http://www.a-rr.net/“Japan River Restoration Network (JRRN)” has a role of ARRN secretariat since Nov. 2006.
Secretariat of ARRN and JRRN is operated by Foundation for Riverfront Improvement andRestoration and CTI Engineering Co., Ltd. as a joint study on development of international
information network of river environment. http://www.a-rr.net/jp/en/

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