Fryirs / Brierley Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems

An Approach to Reading the Landscape
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-30544-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 362 Seiten, E-Book

Filling a niche in the geomorphology teaching market, thisintroductory book is built around a 12 week course in fluvialgeomorphology.
'Reading the landscape' entails making senseof what a riverscape looks like, how it works, how it has evolvedover time, and how alterations to one part of a catchment may havesecondary consequences elsewhere, over different timeframes. Theseplace-based field analyses are framed within their topographic,climatic and environmental context. Issues and principles presentedin the first part of this book provide foundational understandingsthat underpin the approach to reading the landscape that ispresented in the second half of the book. In reading the landscape,detective-style investigations and interpretations are tied totheoretical and conceptual principles to generatecatchment-specific analyses of river character, behaviour andevolution, including responses to human disturbance.
This book has been constructed as an introductory text on riverlandscapes, providing a bridge and/or companion toquantitatively-framed or modelled approaches to landscape analysisthat are addressed elsewhere. Key principles outlined in the bookemphasise the importance of complexity, contingency and emergencein interpreting the character, behaviour and evolution of any givensystem.
The target audience is second and third year undergraduatestudents in geomorphology, hydrology, earth science andenvironmental science, as well as river practitioners who usegeomorphic understandings to guide scientific and/or managementapplications.
The primary focus of Kirstie and Gary's research andteaching entails the use of geomorphic principles as a tool withwhich to develop coherent scientific understandings of riversystems, and the application of these understandings in managementpractice. Kirstie and Gary are co-developers of the RiverStyles® Framework and Short Course that is widely used inriver management, decision-making and training.
Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/fryirs/riversystems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fryirs, Kirstie A.

Brierley, Gary J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 introduces the reader to key conceptual tools with which to analyse rivers. We will examine what fluvial geomorphology is, and introduce the notion of reading the landscape..
Chapter 2 considers process relationships at the catchment-scale, emphasizing patterns and linkages within drainage basins and along longitudinal profiles..
Chapter 3 examines the fundamental energy conditions that fashion the geomorphology of rivers, emphasizing how these relationships vary at different positions in catchments..
Chapters 4-7 build up a picture of the primary components of river systems, starting at the finer scale and working through to a synthesis on river diversity in Chapter 8. Chapter 4 examines processes on the bed of rivers, focusing upon sediment transport and bed material organization. Chapter 5 analyses the erosional and depositional landforms that make up river channels. Chapter 6 integrates processes on the bed and banks of rivers to analyse variation in channel geometry. Chapter 7 considers the range of forms and processes that create and rework floodplains. The synthesis presented in chapter 8 reviews the spectrum of river character and behaviour..
Chapter 9 analyses forms and scales of river adjustment. River behaviour is differentiated from river change. River evolution is framed in context of geological and climatic controls..
Chapter 10 appraises river responses to human disturbance..
Management implications are examined in Chapter 11.

Über Autor(innen)

Kirstie Fryirs is a Senior Lecturer in the Department ofEnvironment and Geography at Macquarie University in Sydney,Australia. She has worked extensively on river systems inAustralia. Her research focuses on geomorphic riverevolution, post-European disturbance responses, sediment budgetsand connectivity, and geoecology. Her research is used extensivelyin river management practice.
Gary Brierley is Chair of Physical Geography in theSchool of Environment at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.Building upon his geomorphic research on river systems in westernCanada, Australia and New Zealand, his recent work has beenundertaken in western China and parts of South America. Hisresearch interests also include concerns for environmental justice,transitional practices in river science and management, andemerging approaches to environmental governance.