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Resilience and Riverine Landscapes
- 1st Edition - November 28, 2023
- 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.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Resilience and riverine landscapes: An introduction
- Introduction
- Riverine landscapes and their ecosystems
- The resilience of riverine landscapes
- Applications and advancement of this edited volume
- A process of realisation and acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Riverine landscapes and resilience
- Introduction
- Riverine landscapes through a different lens
- Resilience perspectives
- Applying resilience to riverine landscapes
- Conclusions
- Chapter 2. The resilience of riverine ecological communities
- Introduction
- What is resilience in an ecological context?
- Are ecological communities in rivers resilient?
- How are anthropogenic changes likely to impact ecological resilience?
- How can we retain ecological resilience?
- Prospective
- Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Resilient floodplains in the Anthropocene
- Introduction
- Characteristics of resilient floodplains
- Human alterations to floodplain resilience
- Floodplains as social-ecological systems
- Case studies
- Understanding and managing resilient floodplains
- Chapter 4. Understanding changing riverine landscapes: instability, thresholds, and tipping points
- Introduction
- Understanding change in riverine landscapes
- Concepts of change: stability, change, thresholds and tipping points
- Case studies
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5. Resilience and adaptive cycles in water-dependent ecosytems: Can panarchy explain trajectories of change among floodplain trees?
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Chapter 6. Geomorphic meanings of a resilient river
- Introduction
- Geomorphic meanings of resilience across the spectrum of river diversity in Australasia
- Framing assessments of river resilience in an evolutionary context: Differentiating river behaviour and change
- Discussion: Resilience, impermanence and environmental protection
- Conclusion: Use of resilience as a construct in geomorphology
- Chapter 7. Drought, disturbance and river resilience in the southern Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
- Introduction
- Case study: Extreme Millennium Drought and its aftermath in the southern Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
- Drought and river ecosystem resilience: Insights from the Murray Darling
- Advancing resilience thinking
- Management implications
- Conclusions
- Appendix A: Model details
- Chapter 8. Multiscale ecological resilience in braided rivers
- Introduction
- Links between river landscape heterogeneity and ecological resilience
- Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in braided rivers
- Ecological resilience through continuity and connectivity
- Biophysical feedbacks, lock-ins and net-negative impact disturbances
- Looking forward
- Glossary
- Chapter 9. Rivers and resilience: A longer term view from the drylands
- Introduction
- Dryland river geomorphological environments
- Resilience in geomorphology and dryland river studies
- Dryland river responses in the Holocene
- Assessing dryland river resilience to Holocene hydroclimatic changes
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10. The Anthropocene: Rivers and resilience
- Introduction
- Case study of an Anthropocene river – The Illinois River, USA
- Resilience and Anthropocene rivers
- Summary
- Chapter 11. Invasion wave patterns testify to the resilience of river systems
- Introduction
- The invasion wave concept
- Empirical evidence demonstrating how ecosystem dynamics and river regulation fit the scale-hierarchy model
- Application
- Chapter 12. Resilience of ecosystem services of a large river-floodplain complex: The Lower Mississippi River system
- Introduction to basic LMR features
- Historical LMR floodplain characteristics
- Contemporary floodplain and properties
- Ecological resilience and ecosystem services of the LMR
- Threats to the current state of resilience of ecosystem services
- Research imperatives to protect resilience of ecosystem services
- Management, restoration options, and challenges to promote system resilience and support ecosystem services
- Summary
- Chapter 13. Resilience and the biophysical science of rivers
- Introduction
- Physical resilience, a property of rivers within a disturbance context
- Organisms as key drivers influencing the resilience of rivers
- Concluding messages: Biophysical resilience of river in the Anthropocene
- Chapter 14. Sustainability and resilience for riverine landscapes
- Introduction
- Sustainability and resilience in brief
- Riverine landscapes and sustainable development
- Frameworks to support sustainability and resilience in riverine landscapes
- Chapter 15. Neoliberalism, normativity and agency: constructive tensions in the application of resilience
- Introduction
- Ecological foundations of resilience research
- Resilience as a neoliberal project
- Resilience as normativity
- Power, agency and resilience
- Conclusion—beyond epistemological pluralism to transdisciplinarity
- Chapter 16. Resilience, rivers and governance: Learning from experience
- Introduction: Framing the argument
- Australia's water governance
- The elements of water system governance
- Political dynamics
- Management issues
- Future shocks and contingencies
- Some final reflections
- Conclusions
- Chapter 17. Fostering interactional resilience in social–ecological riverine landscapes: A case study from the Santa Fe River Watershed in New Mexico, US
- Introduction
- Social and technological dimensions of resilience
- Social–ecological resiliencies in riverine landscapes
- Interactional resiliency
- Polycentric approaches and interactional fields
- Santa Fe River Watershed case study
- Conclusion
- Chapter 18. Indigenous engagement to support resilience: A case study from Kamilaroi Country (NSW, Australia)
- Introduction
- Method
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Disclosure statement
- Chapter 19. Emerging roles for finance in river restoration and resilience
- Introduction
- The river finance sector
- Types of finance-enabled restoration
- River finance and river resilience
- Chapter 20. Multi-scale and multi-level dynamics shape the resilience and sustainability of the Columbia River Basin, USA
- Introduction
- The Columbia River Basin and resilience
- Rivers and resilience
- Social–ecological dynamics of the Columbia River Basin: Eras of resilience
- Resilience to imagine sustainable futures for the Columbia River Basin
- Conclusion
- Chapter 21. Building resilience in South and Southeast Asian mega-deltas
- Introduction
- Tropical mega-delta resilience
- Natural and anthropogenic drivers of environmental change in mega-deltas
- Rising challenges for mega-deltas in South and Southeast Asia
- Optimising delta resilience so no-one is ‘left behind’
- Tackling structural and social inequalities to optimise mega-delta resilience
- Towards resilient mega-deltas in South and Southeast Asia
- Chapter 22. Conceptualising resilience for river management
- Introduction
- Case study: Waingawa River, Aotearoa New Zealand
- Prospect
- Chapter 23. Flow management through a resilience lens: Allocation of an environmental water budget using the Functional Flows Adaptive Implementation Model
- Introduction
- Case study – Allocating an environmental water budget in a Mediterranean-montane watershed using the Functional Flows Adaptive Implementation Model
- Adaptively managing functional flows
- Functional flows and river resilience
- Chapter 24. Resilience-based challenges and opportunities for fisheries management in Anthropocene rivers
- What is an Anthropocene river?
- Challenges for fisheries managers in Anthropocene rivers
- Can a resilience perspective contribute to fisheries management in Anthropocene rivers?
- Case studies
- Conclusions
- Chapter 25. A framework for river recovery in Anthropocene rivers undergoing regime shift: Application to the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program
- Introduction
- The Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program (UCREFRP)
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Chapter 26. Slowing the flow for climate resilience in human-dominated riverine landscapes
- Introduction
- The resilience challenge
- Fostering resilience in riverine landscapes
- Slowing the flow for climate resilience
- Actions, processes and strategies that slow the flow
- Case study: Floodplain forests and flood mitigation under current and future climate conditions in Otter Creek, New England, USA
- Slowing the flow for climate resilience: Prospects and consideration for the future
- Chapter 27. Circumstances supporting the emergence, flourishing and decline of resilience planning in the Australian State of New South Wales
- Introduction
- Implementing the NSW regional model
- Factors affecting the adoption of resilience
- Potential for more widespread adoption
- Chapter 28. Applying resilience thinking to rehabilitating a novel social–ecological system: A case study from the lower Ok Tedi, Papua New Guinea
- Introduction
- The complex social-ecological system of Ok Tedi
- The rehabilitation framework
- Measuring rehabilitation success of a novel ecosystem
- Preliminary monitoring results
- Adaptive management of the initial rehabilitation
- Application to other novel social–ecological systems
- Glossary of terms
- Index
- No. of pages: 674
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 28, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- 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