Resilience and Riverine Landscapes
- 1st Edition - November 28, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Martin Thoms, Ian Fuller
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 7 1 6 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 7 2 0 5 - 5
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
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Request a sales quoteResilience 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
The book will be primarily aimed at academics and postgraduate researchers in departments of hydrology, physical geography, earth sciences and general environmental science.
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
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 28, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 674
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323917162
- eBook ISBN: 9780323972055
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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, AustraliaIF
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 ZealandRead Resilience and Riverine Landscapes on ScienceDirect