To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Habitats & Ecosystems  Forests & Wetlands

Geomorphic Approaches to Floodplain Management of Coastal Plain Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe

By: Paul Hudson(Editor), Hans Middelkoop(Editor)
300 pages, 78 colour & 54 b/w illustrations, 21 tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
Geomorphic Approaches to Floodplain Management of Coastal Plain Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe
Click to have a closer look
  • Geomorphic Approaches to Floodplain Management of Coastal Plain Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe ISBN: 9781493923793 Hardback Apr 2015 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
    £89.99
    #221036
Price: £89.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Biography Related titles

About this book

This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains with substantially altered sediment loads and geomorphic processes. Over the past decade, floodplain management of many lowland rivers has taken on new importance because of concerns about the potential for global environmental change to alter floodplain processes, necessitating revised management strategies that minimize flood risk while enhancing environmental attributes of floodplains influenced by local embankments and upstream dams.

Recognition of the failure of old perspectives on river management and the need to enhance environmental sustainability has stimulated a new approach to river management. The manner that river restoration and integrated management are implemented, however, requires a case study approach that takes into account the impact of historic human impacts to the system, especially engineering. The river basins examined in Geomorphic Approaches to Floodplain Management of Coastal Plain Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe provide a representative coverage of the drainage of North America and Europe, taking into account a range of climatic and physiographic provinces. They include the 1) Sacramento (California, US), 2) San Joaquin (California), 3) Missouri (Missouri), 4) Red (Manitoba and Minnesota), 5) Mississippi (Louisiana), 6) Kissimmee (Florida), 7) Ebro (Spain), 8) Rhone (France), 9) Rhine (Netherlands), 10) Danube (Romania), and 11) Volga (Russian Federation) Rivers. The case studies covered in these chapters span a range of fluvial modes of adjustment, including sediment, channel, hydrologic regime, floodplains, as well as ecosystem and environmental associations.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Sand and gravel on the move: Human impacts on bed-material load along the lower Rhine River
3. Channel responses to global change and local impacts: perspectives and tools for floodplain management
4. Impact scales of fluvial response to management along the Sacramento River, California, USA: Transience versus persistence
5. Flooding, structural flood control measures, and a geomorphic context for the flood problem along the Red River, Manitoba, Canada
6. Flooding, structural flood control measures, and a geomorphic context for the flood problem along the Red River, Manitoba, Canada
7. Geomorphic Perspectives of Managing, Modifying and Restoring a River with Prolonged Flooding: Kissimmee River, Florida, USA
8. Managing the Mississippi River Floodplain: Achieving ecological benefits requires more than hydrological connection to the river
9. The role of floodplain restoration in mitigating flood risk, Lower Missouri River, USA
10. Post-dam channel and floodplain adjustment to the Lower Volga River, Russia
11. Embanking the Lower Danube: from natural to engineered floodplains and back
12. Historical Development and Integrated Management of the Rhone River Floodplain, from the Alps to the Camargue Delta, France
13. The Role of Floodplain Geomorphology in Policy and Management Decisions along the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana
14. The palimpsest of river-floodplain management and the role of geomorphology

Customer Reviews

Biography

Paul Hudson is Associate Professor of Physical Geography at Leiden University, The Netherlands. After completing a PhD in fluvial geomorphology at Louisiana State University, Hudson was Assistant and then Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin for fourteen years, until his move to The Netherlands. His current projects examine river management and geomorphology along rivers in Northern Europe, Texas, and the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana.

Hans Middelkoop is full professor of Physical Geography at Utrecht University. After completing his PhD on embanked floodplains at Utrecht University, Middelkoop was employed at the Netherlands' national Institute for Inland Water Management and Wastewater Treatment (RWS-RIZA). Since 1999 Middelkoop has been appointed at Utrecht University. His research group examines the morphodynamics of rivers, floodplains and deltas across a range of scales, and how these change in response to internal fluvial dynamics, climate, land use changes and human impact. Middelkoop has been active in numerous research projects related to river restoration.

By: Paul Hudson(Editor), Hans Middelkoop(Editor)
300 pages, 78 colour & 54 b/w illustrations, 21 tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides