ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Soil- and Water Bioengineering are sustainable tools to improve resilience against soil loss and soil degradation. These techniques are also very useful to both protect natural riparian areas affected by fast environmental changes and ensure a significant contribution to the long-term protection and mitigation against all forms of soil loss and erosion. Ecologically based approaches still represent a very small percentage of the stabilisation works undertaken due largely to a lack in awareness and skills amongst practitioners. In order to address this situation in the Mediterranean region, seven countries are involved in the ECOMED project, an Erasmus plus project. Whithin the ECOMED project framework, the soil and water bioengineering sector needs were identified in order to develop solutions and training materials to both support and foster at the sector specialization process within the Mediterranean ecoregion. Another aim of this project is the generation of sector-specific theoretical and practical tools which are essential for the achieving the project aims and objectives.
