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Resilience and Riverine Landscapes

  • 1st Edition - November 28, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Martin Thoms, Ian Fuller
  • Language: English

Resilience and Riverine Landscapes presents contributed chapters from global experts in Riverine Landscapes, making it the most comprehensive reference available on the topic.… Read more

Description

Resilience and Riverine Landscapes presents contributed chapters from global experts in Riverine Landscapes, making it the most comprehensive reference available on the topic. The book explores why rivers are ideal landscapes to study resilience and why studying rivers from a resilience perspective is important for our biophysical understanding of these landscapes and for society. The book focuses on the biophysical character of resilience in riverine landscapes, providing an interdisciplinary perspective of the structure, function, and interactions of riverine landscapes and the ecosystems they contain. The editors conclude by proposing a research agenda for the future, emphasizing the need for transdisciplinary research across a range of spatial and temporal scales and research domains.

Key features

  • Presents the resilience of rivers with both a theoretical and applied focus
  • Includes case studies from a wide geographical base, allowing for a full range of viewpoints
  • Showcases how resilience is being incorporated into the study and management of riverine landscapes
  • Includes a transdisciplinary focus on riverine landscapes, from theory to applied, and from biophysical to social-ecological systems

Readership

The book will be primarily aimed at academics and postgraduate researchers in departments of hydrology, physical geography, earth sciences and general environmental science.

Table of contents

Introduction

1 Resilience and Rivers

2 Resilience and ecological communities

3 Resilient floodplains

4 Thresholds tipping points

5 Trajectories of change

6 Geomorphic resilience

7 Droughts and resilience

8 Resilience and ecological networks

9 Dryland rivers and resilience

10 Resilience and the Anthropocene

11 Invasions and resilience

12 Mississippi and resilience

13 Physical science and river

14 Sustainability

15 Neoliberal resilience

16 Policy and governance

17 Fostering resilience

18 Indigenous knowledge

19 Finance and rivers

20 Resilience sustainability

21 Deltas and SES

22 River management and resilience

23 Resilience and environmental flows

24 Resilience and fisheries management

25 River recovery and resilience

26 Slow the flow and resilience

27 Resilience planning

28 Applying resilience thinking

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 28, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Martin Thoms

Martin Thoms is Professor of River Science and Chair of Geography and Planning at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. His research activities focus on the boundaries of river science – boundaries between different disciplines (geomorphology-hydrology-ecology-biogeochemistry), the science-management-policy boundary and the boundaries between rivers and their floodplains. His research in this domain has occurred in both national and international settings. He is currently Regional Editor for River Research and Applications, on the editorial board of four other international journals and has been President of the International Society for River Science.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of River Science and Chair of Geography and Planning, University of New England, Australia

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Ian Fuller

Ian Fuller is currently Professor in Physical Geography at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, where he co-directs the Innovative River Solutions group and where he has been based since 2003. His research in fluvial geomorphology provides an integrated understanding of river systems at multiple spatial and temporal scales. He has completed numerous projects for stakeholders in river management and worked in catchments throughout New Zealand, as well as the UK and Europe. Prior to arriving in New Zealand, Ian completed his PhD at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1996, which was followed by a lectureship in Physical Geography at Northumbria University. He is passionate about educating students in NZ’s rivers and linking geomorphology with river management, and serves on the Executive Committee of Engineering New Zealand’s Rivers Group.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor in Physical Geography, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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