By G. Mathias Kondolf,Hervé Piégay
Fluvial Geomorphology stories the biophysical approaches performing in rivers, and the sediment styles and landforms due to them. it's a self-discipline of synthesis, with roots in geology, geography, and river engineering, and with powerful interactions with allied fields corresponding to ecology, engineering and panorama structure. This ebook comprehensively reports instruments utilized in fluvial geomorphology, at a degree appropriate to steer the choice of study equipment for a given query. proposing an built-in method of the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, it presents counsel for researchers and pros at the instruments on hand to reply to questions about river recovery and administration.
Thoroughly up-to-date because the first variation in 2003 via specialists of their subfields, the e-book offers cutting-edge instruments that experience revolutionized fluvial geomorphology in fresh many years, akin to actual and numerical modelling, distant sensing and GIS, new box strategies, advances in courting, monitoring and sourcing, statistical ways in addition to extra conventional equipment corresponding to the platforms framework, stratigraphic research, shape and stream characterisation and historic research.
This book:
- Covers 5 major kinds of geomorphological questions and their linked instruments: historic framework; spatial framework; chemical, actual and organic tools; research of techniques and types; and destiny realizing framework.
- Provides assistance on merits and obstacles of alternative instruments for various purposes, facts resources, gear and offers wanted, and case stories illustrating their software in an built-in perspective.
It is a necessary source for researchers geomorphologists, hydrologists, geologists, engineers, planners, and ecologists eager about river administration, conservation and recovery. it's a valuable supplementary textbook for top point undergraduate and graduate classes in Geography, Geology, Environmental technological know-how, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and interdisciplinary classes in river administration and restoration.
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