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Flooding and management of large fluvial lowlands : a global environmental perspective / Paul F. Hudson.

By: Hudson, Paul F, 1968- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 330 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139015738 (ebook).Subject(s): Floodplain management | River engineeringAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 627/.4 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Fluvial Lowlands and the Environment: Cause for Concern -- Rivers and Landscapes: A Drainage Basin Framework -- Hydrologic and Geomorphic Processes in Fluvial Lowlands and Deltas -- Dams, Rivers, and the Environment -- Sequence of Channel Engineering and Geomorphic Adjustment -- Embanked Floodplains: Impacts of Flood Control on Lowland Rivers -- Flood Basins and Deltas: Subsidence, Sediment, and Storm Surge -- Towards Integrated Management of Lowland Rivers -- Reflections on Manageing Fluvial Lowlands: Past Informs the Future.
Summary: Pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously during the past twenty years because of flood control, urbanization, and increased dependence upon floodplains and deltas for food production. This book examines human impacts on lowland rivers, and discusses how these changes affect different types of riverine environments and flood processes. Surveying a global range of large rivers, it provides a primary focus on the lower Rhine River in the Netherlands and the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana. A particular focus of the book is on geo-engineering, which is described in a straight-forward writing style that is accessible to a broad audience of advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in global environmental change, fluvial geomorphology and sedimentology, and flood and water management.
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Fluvial Lowlands and the Environment: Cause for Concern -- Rivers and Landscapes: A Drainage Basin Framework -- Hydrologic and Geomorphic Processes in Fluvial Lowlands and Deltas -- Dams, Rivers, and the Environment -- Sequence of Channel Engineering and Geomorphic Adjustment -- Embanked Floodplains: Impacts of Flood Control on Lowland Rivers -- Flood Basins and Deltas: Subsidence, Sediment, and Storm Surge -- Towards Integrated Management of Lowland Rivers -- Reflections on Manageing Fluvial Lowlands: Past Informs the Future.

Pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously during the past twenty years because of flood control, urbanization, and increased dependence upon floodplains and deltas for food production. This book examines human impacts on lowland rivers, and discusses how these changes affect different types of riverine environments and flood processes. Surveying a global range of large rivers, it provides a primary focus on the lower Rhine River in the Netherlands and the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana. A particular focus of the book is on geo-engineering, which is described in a straight-forward writing style that is accessible to a broad audience of advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in global environmental change, fluvial geomorphology and sedimentology, and flood and water management.

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