Resilience and Riverine Landscapes

Resilience and Riverine Landscapes
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Publisher : Elsevier
Total Pages : 678
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ISBN-10 : 9780323972055
ISBN-13 : 0323972055
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Resilience and Riverine Landscapes by : Martin Thoms

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. - 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

Environmental Flows in an Uncertain Future

Environmental Flows in an Uncertain Future
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Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages : 311
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ISBN-10 : 9782832508633
ISBN-13 : 2832508634
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Environmental Flows in an Uncertain Future by : Avril C. Horne

Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes

Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes
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Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages : 510
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ISBN-10 : 9780643104532
ISBN-13 : 0643104534
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes by : Samantha Capon

Vegetation communities in Australia's riverine landscapes are ecologically, economically and culturally significant. They are also among the most threatened ecosystems on the continent and have been dramatically altered as a result of human activities and climate change. Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes brings together, for the first time, the results of the substantial amount of research that has been conducted over the last few decades into the biology, ecology and management of these important plant communities in Australia. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides context with respect to the spatial and temporal dimensions of riverine landscapes in Australia. The second section examines key groups of riverine plants, while the third section provides an overview of riverine vegetation in five major regions of Australia, including patterns, significant threats and management. The final section explores critical issues associated with the conservation and management of riverine plants and vegetation, including water management, salinity, fire and restoration. Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes highlights the incredible diversity and dynamic nature of riverine vegetation across Australia, and will be an excellent reference for researchers, academics and environmental consultants.

Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems

Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 650
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ISBN-10 : 9781118305447
ISBN-13 : 1118305442
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems by : Kirstie A. Fryirs

Filling a niche in the geomorphology teaching market, this introductory book is built around a 12 week course in fluvial geomorphology. ‘Reading the landscape’ entails making sense of what a riverscape looks like, how it works, how it has evolved over time, and how alterations to one part of a catchment may have secondary consequences elsewhere, over different timeframes. These place-based field analyses are framed within their topographic, climatic and environmental context. Issues and principles presented in the first part of this book provide foundational understandings that underpin the approach to reading the landscape that is presented in the second half of the book. In reading the landscape, detective-style investigations and interpretations are tied to theoretical and conceptual principles to generate catchment-specific analyses of river character, behaviour and evolution, including responses to human disturbance. This book has been constructed as an introductory text on river landscapes, providing a bridge and/or companion to quantitatively-framed or modelled approaches to landscape analysis that are addressed elsewhere. Key principles outlined in the book emphasise the importance of complexity, contingency and emergence in interpreting the character, behaviour and evolution of any given system. The target audience is second and third year undergraduate students in geomorphology, hydrology, earth science and environmental science, as well as river practitioners who use geomorphic understandings to guide scientific and/or management applications. The primary focus of Kirstie and Gary’s research and teaching entails the use of geomorphic principles as a tool with which to develop coherent scientific understandings of river systems, and the application of these understandings in management practice. Kirstie and Gary are co-developers of the River Styles® Framework and Short Course that is widely used in river management, decision-making and training. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/fryirs/riversystems.

Bridging the Gaps in Riverine Corridor Conservation to Enhance Ecological Resilience

Bridging the Gaps in Riverine Corridor Conservation to Enhance Ecological Resilience
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9798698541974
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Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Bridging the Gaps in Riverine Corridor Conservation to Enhance Ecological Resilience by : Amanda T. Stahl

The impacts of climate change and human activities on the landscape threaten biodiversity as well as ecosystem services worldwide. Efforts to pursue more sustainable environmental management are hindered by scientific uncertainty, the unpredictability of social and ecological responses to change, and the dependence of conservation success on coordinated actions across governmental jurisdictions and boundaries of land ownership. To coordinate actions across landscapes with the flexibility to address complexity and uncertainty, environmental decision-making can aim to manage ecological resilience rather than optimizing actions for a specific resource, as has historically been the norm in natural resources management. Ecological resilience is the ability of an ecosystem to cope with shocks and continue functioning without crossing a threshold that changes its identity. Yet, in many settings, cross-scale ecological knowledge is not provided in a manner that effectively informs policy to promote coordinated actions at relevant spatial and temporal scales to manage resilience. Riverine ecosystems exemplify this problem with biophysical processes and flows that change rapidly, span political and property boundaries, and depend on three-dimensional connectivity. Restoring and maintaining the multidimensional connectivity that sustains ecosystem services requires adaptive policy processes to coordinate riverine land management practices along river networks. This dissertation presents new approaches to harness untapped capacity to link actions across boundaries by intersecting riverine ecological understanding with existing laws and policies.Contrasting perspectives embedded in connectivity conservation issues at the social-ecological interface are addressed in each chapter. Chapter One presents a science-based policy process with a social-ecological categorization scheme to clarify the role of science in fostering policy to coordinate conservation actions across scales and heterogeneous landscapes. Chapter Two presents a novel methodology for identifying place-based opportunities to coordinate corridor conservation across boundaries by mapping and quantifying existing legal capacity. Chapter Three presents a strategy for cloud-based environmental monitoring to increase the timeliness and relevance of remote sensing data in providing feedback for adaptive management and policy evaluation. The findings contribute to the exchange of information across the science-policy interface to facilitate coordination across scales and lay out future steps for transdisciplinary research to address barriers to managing ecological resilience.

Towards Resilient Water Landscapes

Towards Resilient Water Landscapes
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Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 9783866444980
ISBN-13 : 3866444982
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Towards Resilient Water Landscapes by : Oliver Parodi

River Science

River Science
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 430
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ISBN-10 : 9781119994343
ISBN-13 : 1119994349
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis River Science by : David J. Gilvear

River Science is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field at the interface of the natural sciences, engineering and socio-political sciences. It recognises that the sustainable management of contemporary rivers will increasingly require new ways of characterising them to enable engagement with the diverse range of stakeholders. This volume represents the outcome of research by many of the authors and their colleagues over the last 40 years and demonstrates the integral role that River Science now plays in underpinning our understanding of the functioning of natural ecosystems, and how societal demands and historic changes have affected these systems. The book will inform academics, policy makers and society in general of the benefits of healthy functioning riverine systems, and will increase awareness of the wide range of ecosystem goods and services they provide.

Riverine Ecology Volume 1

Riverine Ecology Volume 1
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 592
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ISBN-10 : 9783030538972
ISBN-13 : 3030538974
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Riverine Ecology Volume 1 by : Susanta Kumar Chakraborty

This book is part of a two-volume set that offers an innovative approach towards developing methods and tools for assigning conservation categories of threatened taxa and their conservation strategies by way of different phases of eco-restoration in the context of freshwater river systems of tropical bio-geographic zones. The set provides a considerable volume of research on the biodiversity component of river ecosystems, seasonal dynamics of physical chemical parameters, geo-hydrological properties, types, sources and modes of action of different types of pollution, river restoration strategies and methodologies for the ongoing ecological changes of river ecosystems. Volume 1 provides an in-depth analysis of different theories with international relevance pertaining to the functioning of river ecosystems, shaping their structure and contributing ecological services, and includes the principles of riverine ecology such as biogeochemical cycles, physiography, hydrogeology, and physico-chemical parameters. It covers the basic concepts and principles of water within riverine ecosystems, and the underlying ecological principles operating to ensure ecological stability and sustainability of the fluvial ecosystem. The book explains the ecofunctionality of different geo-morphological, geo-hydrological and physico-chemical factors and processes in changing time scales and spaces, with special emphasis on the tropical fresh water rivers in India.

Landscape Resilience Framework

Landscape Resilience Framework
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 34
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ISBN-10 : 0990898555
ISBN-13 : 9780990898559
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscape Resilience Framework by : Erin Beller

The Landscape Resilience Framework is designed to facilitate application of resilience principles to ecosystem management by detailing the seven dimensions of a landscape that contribute to resilience. It represents a synthesis of thinking across empirical ecological studies and social-ecological resilience theory, and was reviewed by a team of expert advisors. Our goal was to create a concise and comprehensive set of key considerations that could be integrated into identifying on-the-ground actions across urban design, conservation planning, and ecosystem management that would contribute to resilient future landscapes.

Rivers and Society

Rivers and Society
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9781317396116
ISBN-13 : 1317396111
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Rivers and Society by : Malcolm Cooper

Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societies have utilized and altered river flows in a number of ways for millennia. However, the level of human impact on rivers, and on watershed environments, has become acute during the last hundred years or so. This book brings together empirical research and theoretical perspectives on the changing conditions of a range of river basin environments in the contemporary world, including the history and culture of local societies living in these river basins. It provides theoretical insights on the patterns and nature of the interaction between rivers and their use by human communities. The chapters are written from a variety of positions, including environmental science, hydrology, human ecology, urban studies, water management, historical geography, cultural anthropology and tourism studies. The case studies span different geographical regions, providing valuable insight on the multifaceted interactions between rivers and our societies, and on the changing riverscapes in different parts of the world. Specific detailed examples are included from Australia, Brazil, France, India, Iran, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.