Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsRiver Engineering and Management in the 21st Century (R.Hey).
NATURAL CHANNEL STABILITY AND TIME PERSPECTIVES (M. Macklin).
Channel, Floodplain and Drainage Basin Response to EnvironmentalChange (M. Macklin & J. Lewin).
Short-Term Changes in Channel Stability (A. Werritty).
RIVER CHANNEL AND VALLEY PROCESSES (J. Bathurst).
Environmental Rive Flow Hydraulics (J. Bathurst).
Sediment Erosion, Transport and Deposition (I. Reid, et al.).
Bank Erosion and Instability (D. Lawler, et al.).
CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY AND DYNAMICS (K. Richards).
Channel Types and Morphological Classification (C. Thorne).
Stable River Morphology (R. Hey).
Styles of Channel Change (J. Hooke).
Prediction of Morphological Changes in Unstable Channels (K.Richards & S. Lane).
River Dynamics and Channel Maintenance (A. Brookes).
CASE STUDIES AND APPLICATIONS (M. Newson).
Case Studies in the Application of Geomorphology to RiverManagement (M. Newson, et al.).
Application of Applied Fluvial Geomorphology: Problem and Potential(C. Thorne, et al.).
Indexes.
