Rivers in the Landscape Science and Management

Rivers in the Landscape: Science and Management offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the current state of knowledge for river process and form, taking a holistic approach to the subject with coverage of integrated river science and management in practice.

The processes and forms present in channelized surface flow–rivers–are systematically explored in this book to

• emphasize the connectivity between rivers and the greater landscape by explicitly considering the
interactions between rivers and tectonics, climate, biota, and human activities;

• provide a concise summary of the current state of knowledge for physical process and form in rivers;

• reflect the diversity of river environments, from mountainous, headwater channels to large, lowland,
floodplain rivers and from the arctic to the tropics;

• reflect the diverse methods that scientists use to characterize and understand river process and form,
including remote sensing, field measurements, physical experiments, and numerical simulations;

• reflect the increasing emphasis on quantification in fluvial geomorphology and the study of Earth surfaces in general;