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Aug 18, 2023 | mdpi.com | Hongbo Jiao |Yinan Li |Huaibin Wei |Jing Juan Liu

2. Concepts and Assessment Benchmarks of River Health in Areas of Significant Human Activity 2.1. Study of River Health in Areas of Significant Human ActivityRapport first introduced the concept of “ecosystem health” in the 1980s [24]. Initially, research was primarily focused on the river ecosystem and the health of river life and function. However, as time progressed, the concept of river health evolved and expanded to encompass other aspects of rivers.