River restoration : selected extracts from the Rivers handbook

Author(s)

• Petts, Geoffrey E.
• Calow, Peter

Bibliographic Information

River restoration : selected extracts from the Rivers handbook

edited by Geoffrey Petts and Peter Calow

Blackwell Science, 1996

Uniform Title

Rivers handbook

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The long history of land-use change and industralisation has left a dramatic environmental legacy in many regions of the world, especially North America and

Table of Contents

• The Nature of Rivers
• River Pollution
• Biological Water-Quality Assessment of Rivers: Use of Macroinvertebrate Communities
• Water Quality Control
• Flow Allocation for In-river Needs
• Environmentally Sensitive River Engineering
• Rehabilitation of River Margins
• Restoration of River Corridors
• Management of Macrophytic Vegetation
• Direct Control of Fauna: Role of Hatcheries, Fish Stocking and Fishing Regulation
• Spatial and Temporal Problems with Monitoring
• System recovery

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Details

• NCID: BA28481124
• ISBN:
  • 0865429197
• LCCN: 96011447
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 231 p., 1 leaf of plates
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : TC405
  • DC20 : 628.1/12
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : River engineering