Rice / Roy / Rhoads River Confluences, Tributaries and the Fluvial Network

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-76037-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 474 Seiten, E-Book

River Confluences and the Fluvial Network brings togetherstate of the art thinking on confluence dynamics tributary impactsand the links between processes at these scales and river networkfunctions. The book is unique in focus, content, scope and inbringing together engineering, ecological and geomorphologicalapproaches to the three key areas of river system science.
Taking a global approach this multi-authored text features ateam of carefully selected, internationally renowned, experts whohave all contributed significantly to recent ground breakingadvancements in the field. Each chapter includes acomprehensive review of work to date highlighting recentdiscoveries and the main thrust of knowledge, previouslyunpublished research and case studies, challenges and questions,detailed references as well as a forward looking assessment of thestate of the science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rice, Stephen

Roy, Andre

Rhoads, Bruce