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  • - A Guide to Restoring Riverine Processes and Habitats
    af P Roni
    643,95 - 1.347,95 kr.

    With $2 billion spent annually on stream restoration worldwide, there is a pressing need for guidance in this area, but until now, there was no comprehensive text on the subject.

  • - Political, Social, and Economic Perspectives
    af B Morandi
    1.008,95 kr.

    River RestorationRiver restoration initiatives are now widespread across the world. The research efforts undertaken to support them are increasingly interdisciplinary, focusing on ecological, chemical, physical as well as societal issues. River Restoration: Political, Social, and Economic Perspectives provides a comprehensive overview of research in the field of river restoration in humanities and the social sciences. It illustrates how, in the last thirty years or so, such approaches have evolved and strengthened within the restoration sciences.The scientific community working in this domain has structured itself, often regionally and circumstantially, to critically assess and improve restoration policies and practices. As a research field, river restoration tackles three thematic axes:* Human-river interactions - especially perceptions and practices of rivers, and how these interactions can be changed by restoration projects* Political processes, with a particular interest in governance and decision-making, and a specific emphasis on the question of public participation in restoration projects* Evaluation of the social and economic benefits of river restorationRiver Restoration: Political, Social, and Economic Perspectives encompasses these three topics, and more, to provide the reader with the most up-to-date and holistic view of this constantly evolving area. The book will be of particular interest to human and social scientists, biophysical scientists (hydrologists, geomorphologists, ecologists), environmental scientists, public policy makers, design or planning officers, and anyone working in the field of river restoration.

  • - Methods and Applications
    af John G. Williams, J. Angus Webb, G. Mathias (University of California Kondolf & mfl.
    1.103,95 kr.

    Provides critiques of current practices for environmental flow assessment and shows how they can be improved, using case studies.In Environmental Flow Assessment: Methods and Applications, four leading experts critique methods used to manage flows in regulated streams and rivers to balance environmental (instream) and out-of-stream uses of water. Intended for managers as well as practitioners, the book dissects the shortcomings of commonly used approaches, and offers practical advice for selecting and implementing better ones.The authors argue that methods for environmental flow assessment (EFA) can be defensible as well as practicable only if they squarely address uncertainty, and provide guidance for doing so. Introductory chapters describe the scientific and social reasons that EFA is hard, and provide a brief history. Because management of regulated streams starts with understanding freshwater ecosystems, Environmental Flow Assessment: Methods and Applications includes chapters on flow and organisms in streams. The following chapters assess standard and emerging methods, how they should be tested, and how they should (or should not) be applied. The book concludes with practical recommendations for implementing environmental flow assessment.* Describes historical and recent trends in environmental flow assessment* Directly addresses practical difficulties with applying a scientifically informed approach in contentious circumstances* Serves as an effective introduction to the relevant literature, with many references to articles in related scientific fields* Pays close attention to statistical issues such as sampling, estimation of statistical uncertainty, and model selection* Includes recommendations for methods and approaches* Examines how methods have been tested in the past and shows how they should be tested today and in the futureEnvironmental Flow Assessment: Methods and Applications is an excellent book for biologists and specialists in allied fields such as engineering, ecology, fluvial geomorphology, environmental planning, landscape architecture, along with river managers and decision makers.

  • af PE Carbonneau
    926,95 kr.

    This book offers a comprehensive overview of progress in the general area of fluvial remote sensing with a specific focus on its potential contribution to river management. The book highlights a range of challenging issues by considering a range of spatial and temporal scales with perspectives from a variety of disciplines.

  • af G. Mathias (University of California Kondolf & Herve (CNRS Piegay
    1.222,95 kr.

    Fluvial Geomorphology studies the biophysical processes acting in rivers, and the sediment patterns and landforms resulting from them. It is a discipline of synthesis, with roots in geology, geography, and river engineering, and with strong interactions with allied fields such as ecology, engineering and landscape architecture.

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