The Rivers Handbook
Published on 15. August 1994
Book
Hardback
1088 pages
978-0-86542-848-5 (ISBN)
Description
Fast changing legislation and increasing environmental awareness amongst the non-scientific community demand that the modern approach to the management of rivers and water resources should be based on a sound understanding and application of the scientific and ecological principles that underlie freshwater processes. In two volumes, The Rivers Handbook offers an expert and exhaustive insight into the principles, methods and tools of modern river management; always within an integrated framework. Volume One describes these scientific and ecological principles, Volume Two develops these principles into the management sphere
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
309
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
2995 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86542-848-5 (9780865428485)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Volume One; I - Hydrological and physicochemical characteristics; The hydrology of head water catchments; Analysis of river regimes; Water Quality I- Physical characteristics; Water Quality II- Chemical characteristics; In-stream hydraulics and sediment transport; Channel morphology and typology; Floodplain construction and erosion; II - The Biota; Heterotrophic microbes; Algae; Macrophytes; Invertebrates; Riverine fishes; The sampling problem; III - Inputs and pathways of matter and energy; Food webs and species interactions; Detritus processing; Primary production; Energy budgets; Cycles and spirals of nutrients; IV - Examples; La Grande Riviere: a subarctic river and a hydroelectric megaproject; The Rhone River: a large alluvial temperate river; The Orinoco: physical, biological and cultural diversity of a major tropical alluvial river; The River Murray, Australia: a semiarid lowland river; A mountain river; Volume Two; I - Perturbations and impacts; Rivers: dynamic components of catchment ecosystems; River pollution; Hydrological change; River channel changes; System recovery; II - Monitoring programmes; Spatial and temporal problems with monitoring; Water-quality monitoring; Biological water quality assessment of rivers: use of macroinvertebrate communities; III -Modelling, forecast and prediction; Hydrology and climate change; Modelling hydrological processes for river management; Water-quality modelling; Sediment transport and channel stability; Prediction of biological responses; Evolution of instream flow habitat modelling; IV - Management options; Assessment of instream flow needs; Control rules for regulating reservoirs; Water quality control; Environmentally sensitive river engineering; Management of macrophytic vegetation; Direct control of fauna; Roles of hatcheries, fish stocking and fisheries regulations; Rehabilitation of river margins; Restoration of river corridors; German experiences; V - Case Studies; Management of the Upper Mississippi; River management in cold regions: a case study of the River Laxa, North Iceland; Dryland rivers: the ecology, conservation and management