Organizations:

• In Australia: River Landscapes
• In Europe: European Centre for River Restoration (ECRR)
• In the UK: The River Restoration Centre
• In the US: Federal Interagency Stream Corridor Restoration Working Group
• Worldwide: International Rivers Network

Definitions:

Everyone seems to have an opinion on the definition of restoration. Despite numerous attempts by at least 20 different authors to clarify the meaning, there is still no consensus. Thus, if you use the term, make sure you explicitly specify which definition you subscribe to.

• Restoration Definition One: “A catch all term for river management activities including restoration, rehabilitation, enhancement and/or creation (Brookes, 1996).
• Restoration Definition Two:“The complete structural and functional return to a predisturbance state." (Cairns, 1991).
• Rehabilitation: “The partial structural and functional return to a pre-disturbance state" (Cairns, 1991).
• Synonymous with enhancement: “Any improvement of a structural or functional attribute" (National Research Council, 1992).
• Synonymous with creation: “The birth of a new (alternative) ecosystem that previously did not exist at the site" (National Research Council, 1992).
• Synonymous with recovery: “The act of restoration to an improved or former condition" (Sear, 1994).
• Restoration Definition from Dr. Terry Langford: "Restoration is the use of a disturbance to alter the effects of a previous disturbance"
• Restoration definitions from Brian Stockwell's Masters Dissertation
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Restoration Definitions
•  Have your own definition? Take my Restoration Survey and have your say.

Objectives and Planning:

• Some common objectives (from the River Restoration Survey)
• Wheaton JM. 2005. Review of River Restoration Motives and Objectives. Unpublished Review, Southampton, U.K., 12 pp.
• Wheaton JM, Sear DA and Darby SE 2004. Uncertain Notions of Natural in River Restoration. Unpublished Paper, Southampton, U.K. 22 pp.
• Definitions of Natural Capital (and links)
• Ecosystem Valuation
• Factsheet on River Management Objectives
• Garibaldi A and Turner N. 2004. Cultural Keystone Species: Implications for Ecological Conservation and Restoration. Ecology and Society. 9(3): 1 [online] url: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss3/art1.

Approaches and Guidelines:

• Figure comparing different restoration approaches.
• Engineering Geomorphology (Bravard et al., 1997)
• Geomorphological Principles for Restoring Channels (Brookes and Sear, 1996)
• General Protocol for Restoration of Regulated Rivers (Stanford et al., 1996)
• Gravel Mitigation and Augmentation Below Hydroelectric Dams: A Geomorphological Perspective (Bunte, 2007)
  
• Manual of River Restoration Techniques ~ U.K. River Restoration Centre (Web Site)
• Guidebook of Applied Fluvial Geomorphology ~ (Sear et al., 2003)
• Figure depicting the Leitbild Approach adapted from Jungwirth et al. (2002)
• Online Training Watershed Management Modules ~ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Protocols for Water Quality and Stream Ecology Research ~ Central Coast Watershed Studies
• Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems ~ (Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, 1992)
• River Channel Restoration: Guiding Principles for Sustainable Projects (Ed. Brookes and Shields, 1996)
• Rosgen- Applied River Morphology (Rosgen, 1996)
• Spawning Habitat Integrated Rehabilitation Approach (Wheaton, 2003)
• Stream Corridor Restoration Manual ~ U.S. Principles, Processes and Practices (FISRWG, 1998)
• Watershed Restoration Technical Circulars -British Columbia ~ Canadian Watershed Restoration Program
• Maryland's Waterway Construction Guidelines
• Aquatic Habitat Guidelines: An Integrated Approach to Marine, Freshwater and Riparian Habitat Protection and Restoration ~ Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
• Rehabilitation of Rivers for Fish ~ United Nations FAO: European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission
• Restoration Guidelines and Manuals ~ From Australia's River Landscapes Group
• Road Removal Guidelines~ Wildlands CPR

Adaptive Management:

• Contribute to the Uncertainty and Adaptive Management Forum of the River Basins Bulletin Boards!
• Adaptive Management Practitioners' Network
• Adaptive Management Links
• Adaptive Management
• Google search results for adaptive management

Project Databases:

You can either view the databases to find existing projects or add your own project(s).

• US: Bernhardt, E.S., Palmer, M.A., Allan, J.D., Alexander, G., Barnas, K., Brooks, S., Carr, J., Clayton, S., Dahm, C., Follstad-Shah, J., Galat, D., Gloss, S., Goodwin, P., Hart, D., Hassett, B., Jenkinson, R., Katz, S., Kondolf, G.M., Lake, P.S., Lave, R., Meyer, J.L., O'Donnell, T.K., Pagano, L., Powell, B. and Sudduth, E., 2005. Synthesizing US river restoration efforts. Science, 308(5722): 636-637.
• US: NRRSS Database
• US: National Estuaries Restoration Inventory
• US: Interagency Restoration Database
• UK: River Restoration Centre Project Data Base
• EU: European Centre for River Restoration Project Database

Restoration Bibliographies:

• The River Restoration Centre's References of Interest
• Restoration Ecology: Selected Bibliography ~ Compiled by Carol Green and Louise Richards from University of Washington

Research Projects:

• ManTech Report - An Ecosystem Approach to Salmonid Conservation, by Brian C. Spence,
  Gregg A. Lomnicky, Robert M. Hughes & Richard P. Novitzki - NOAA
• Selected Projects from CatchMod : The EU Catchment Modelling Cluster (HarmoniCA)
• HARMONI-RiB Project~ an European Project under the European Commission`s "Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (EESD)" Programme specifically for addressing uncertainty in Integrated River Basin Management.
• HARMONI-QA ~ Harmonising Quality Assurance in model based catchment and river basin management
• HarmonIT Project~ a research project to develop a European Open Modelling Interface and Environment (OpenMI) that will simplify the linking of hydrology related models.
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics' Stream Restoration Group