River Channel Management

Towards sustainable catchment hydrosystems

Peter Downs, Ken Gregory

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780340759691
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134639106
• Topic: Naturwissenschaften
• Subtopic: Ökologie

River Channel Management is the first book to deal comprehensively with recent revolutions in river channel management. It explores the multi-disciplinary nature of river channel management in relation to modern management techniques that bear the background of the entire drainage basin in mind, use channel restoration where appropriate, and are designed to be sustainable.



River Channel Management is divided into five sections:

·The Introduction outlines the need for river channel management .

·Retrospective Review offers an overview of twentieth century engineering methods and the ways that river channel systems operate.

·Realisation explains how greater understanding of river channel adjustments, channel hazards and river basin planning created a context for twenty-first century management.

·Requirements for Management explains and examines environmental assessment, restoration-based approaches, and methods that work towards 'design with nature'

·Final Revision speculates about prospects for twenty-first century river channel management.



River Channel Management is written for higher-level undergraduates and for postgraduates in geography, ecology, engineering, planning, geology and environmental science, for professionals involved in river channel management, and for staff in environmental agencies.

Index

Note: Page numbers in italics refer to Figures, those in bold refer to tables

active floodplain 67

adaptive management 191, 193, 194, 230, 273, 316, 326

adjustment potential-hazard locations 217

afforestation 142

Agenda 21 157, 165, 169, 184

agricultural practises 144

agriculture, intensive 138

alignment-first approaches 300

allogenic changes 87, 88, 90, 91, 115

alluvial channels 128

fans 129, 132

rivers 227

American Heritage and River Initiative 182

antecedent events 146

appraisal - post-project 203

area of maximum disturbance (AMD) 222

armouring 38

arroyo formation 144

assisted natural recovery 292

at a point, variations of 58

attitudes to nature 180

autogenic changes 85, 86, 88,91, 115

rates of 87

avulsions, channel 132

backwater flows 32

baffles 288

bandalls 36

bank erosion 107, 292, 293, 310

bankfull capacity 218

channel dimensions 219

discharge 61, 219

bank protection 37, 39, 207, 263, 306

measures 309

works 101, 310

bank retreat processes 308

bankside fencing 252, 253

tree planting 252, 253, 284

barriers, flood 109

‘barriers to change’ 128, 136

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
• SECTION II: RETROSPECT
• SECTION III: REALIZATION
• SECTION IV: REQUIREMENTS
• SECTION V: REVISION
• REFERENCES
• INDEX