River Conviviality: Advancing socio-environmentally just river restoration through nature-based solutions

Despite the ambitious plans from UN and UE, their strategy and implementation are often challenged and frustrated by fierce social contestations. This aspect is little explored and largely overlooked in restoration literature and practice, which predominantly portrays contestations as matters of miscommunication or lack of awareness. To support and advance more inclusive transformative socio-ecological change in the above sketched context, RiVIVE will centre around the following main research question: How can the exploration and elaboration of the notion of riverscape conviviality translate to new insights and approaches that support transformative change towards more biodiverse, inclusive and socio-environmentally just outcomes in river restoration initiatives?