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Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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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.
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