Geomorphic approaches to integrated floodplain management of lowland fluvial systems in North America and Europe

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Geomorphic approaches to integrated floodplain management of lowland fluvial systems in North America and Europe

Statement of responsibility

Paul F. Hudson, Hans Middelkoop, editors

Contributor

• Hudson, Paul F.
• Middelkoop, Hans, 1962-

Editor

• Hudson, Paul F.
• Middelkoop, Hans, 1962-

Subject

• Floodplain management -- North America
• North America
• Fluvial geomorphology
• TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Civil | Flood Control
• Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution
• Electronic books
• Climate Change
• Floodplain management -- Europe
• Floodplain management
• Europe
• Fluvial geomorphology -- Europe
• Environment
• Environmental Management
• Fluvial geomorphology -- North America

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

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 this volume 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, USA), 2) San Joaquin (California), 3) Missouri (Missouri, USA), 4) Red (Manitoba, Canada and Minnesota, USA), 5) Mississippi (Louisiana, USA), 6) Kissimmee (Florida, USA), 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

Member of

• Online access with purchase: Springer (t)

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

627.4

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

TC530

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography