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Gravel Bed Rivers 6: From Process Understanding to River Restoration (Volume 11)
Author(s): H. Habersack (Editor), H. Piegay (Editor), M. Rinaldi (Editor)
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Publication Date: 23 Oct. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 836 pages
- ISBN-10: 044452861X
- ISBN-13: 9780444528612
Book Description
Based on the interdisciplinary approaches between earth science, engineering, physical geography, ecology and management, this text focuses on the theoretical questions, case-studies, challenges, and constraints taken from river restoration. It is illustrated with reports of new ground-breaking research covering spatial and temporal scales of physical processes in river catchments, coupling catchment and fluvial processes, grain dynamics and fluvial forms and on geo-ecology and restoration in mountain gravel-bed river environments. Each chapter includes discussions and comments providing experience and feedback from the fundamental research. This book covers scales of analysis for gravel-bed rivers, physics and modeling of processes at local and point scales, sediment delivery and storage, eco-geography and eco-hydraulics, and channel management and restoration.
* Major topics in the field are presented by recognized scientific leaders* Chapters cover theories, practices, and methodologies in river management and restoration* Interdisciplinary approach includes case-studies on new, ground-breaking research
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reference for those who are working on the restoration of mountain rivers including geologists, hydrologists, ecologists, geochemists, and civil/environmental engineers
