River Channel Management
eBook - ePub

River Channel Management

Towards sustainable catchment hydrosystems

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

River Channel Management

Towards sustainable catchment hydrosystems

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780340759691
eBook ISBN
9781134639106
Edition
1
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geography
Index
Geography

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
baseline ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
  9. SECTION II: RETROSPECT
  10. SECTION III: REALIZATION
  11. SECTION IV: REQUIREMENTS
  12. SECTION V: REVISION
  13. REFERENCES
  14. INDEX