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Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands
A Global Environmental Perspective
- 350 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
Pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously during the past twenty years because of flood control, urbanization, and increased dependence upon floodplains and deltas for food production. This book examines human impacts on lowland rivers, and discusses how these changes affect different types of riverine environments and flood processes. Surveying a global range of large rivers, it provides a primary focus on the lower Rhine River in the Netherlands and the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana. A particular focus of the book is on geo-engineering, which is described in a straight-forward writing style that is accessible to a broad audience of advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in global environmental change, fluvial geomorphology and sedimentology, and flood and water management.
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Topic
Physical SciencesSubtopic
HydrologyTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 Fluvial Lowlands and the Environment: Cause for Concern
- 2 Rivers and Landscapes: A Drainage Basin Framework
- 3 Hydrologic and Geomorphic Processes in Fluvial Lowlands and Deltas
- 4 Dams, Rivers, and the Environment
- 5 Hydraulic Engineering for Channel Stability and Flood Control: The Sequence of Geomorphic Adjustment
- 6 Dikes and Floodplains: Impacts of Flood Control on Lowland Rivers
- 7 Flood Basins and Deltas: Subsidence, Sediment, and Storm Surge
- 8 Toward Integrated Management of Lowland Rivers
- 9 Lessons Learned: Future Management of Fluvial Lowlands
- Bibliography
- Index
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