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9780471969686

Applied Fluvial Geomorphology for River Engineering and Management

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    9780471969686

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    0471969680

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-06-29
  • Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

This invaluable overview of fluvial geomorphology provides river engineers and managers, who may lack specialist training, with useful insights into, and understanding of, natural channel forms and fluvial processes.Such information is a pre-requisite for carrying out environmental impact assessments and for developing environmentally sensitive design and management procedures to preserve riverine environments and restore degraded ones. Designing with nature is preferable to imposing hard engineering solutions as it sustains natural biodiversity and minimises costs. This book will also be a very useful teaching aid for students, both under- and post-graduate, studying civil engineering, environmental management or sciences, or geography who are looking to have a wider knowledge of new approaches to the subject.Geomorphology requires the collection and consideration of a wide range of data, mostly field based but also including historical information such as archive documents and maps, which are outside the experience of most river engineers and managers. These data enable the current condition of the river to be explained, both locally and within the catchment, and establish historical changes and future trends. In addition, process studies have now identified many of the mechanisms controlling river moprhology which underpin the development of soft, bio-engineering, design procedures. The book incorporates material on methods and techniques of data collection, analysis and interpretation, making extensive use of case studies throughout.Thus the experienced authors go some way towards demystifying applied fluvial geomorphology by demonstrating that, while there is still an element of judgement, major contributions to geomorphic understanding usually come from the careful assemblage and objective analysis of all available data and information.

Author Biography

C. R. Thorne is the editor of Applied Fluvial Geomorphology for River Engineering and Management, published by Wiley. Richard D. Hey is the editor of Applied Fluvial Geomorphology for River Engineering and Management, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vii
Acknowledgements viii
SECTION I INTRODUCTION 1(12)
R. D. Hey
River Engineering and Management in the 21st Century
3(10)
R. D. Hey
SECTION II NATURAL CHANNEL STABILITY AND TIME PERSPECTIVES 13(54)
M. G. Macklin
Channel, Floodplain and Drainage Basin Response to Environmental Change
15(32)
M. G. Macklin
J. Lewin
Short-term Changes in Channel Stability
47(20)
A. Werritty
SECTION III RIVER CHANNEL AND VALLEY PROCESSES 67(106)
J. C. Bathurst
Environmental River Flow Hydraulics
69(26)
J. C. Bathurst
Sediment Erosion, Transport and Deposition
95(42)
I. Reid
J. C. Bathurst
P. A. Carling
D. E. Walling
B. W. Webb
Bank Erosion and Instability
137(36)
D. M. Lawler
C. R. Thorne
J. M. Hooke
SECTION IV CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY AND DYNAMICS 173(136)
K. S. Richards
Channel Types and Morphological Classification
175(48)
C. R. Thorne
Stable River Morphology
223(14)
R. D. Hey
Styles of Channel Change
237(32)
J. M. Hooke
Prediction of Morphological Changes in Unstable Channels
269(24)
K. S. Richards
S. N. Lane
River Dynamics and Channel Maintenance
293(16)
A. Brookes
SECTION V CASE STUDIES AND APPLICATIONS 309(62)
M. D. Newson
Case Studies in the Application of Geomorphology to River Management
311(54)
M. D. Newson
R. D. Hey
J. C. Bathurst
A. Brookes
P. A. Carling
G. E. Petts
D. A. Sear
Application of Applied Fluvial Geomorphology: Problems and Potential
365(6)
C. R. Thorne
M. D. Newson
R. D. Hey
Rivers Index 371(1)
Index 372

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