04223nam 22007095 450 991029940050332120200701031025.03-319-65124-210.1007/978-3-319-65124-8(CKB)3710000001631234(DE-He213)978-3-319-65124-8(MiAaPQ)EBC5015243(PPN)203851668(EXLCZ)99371000000163123420170831d2018 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources /by Ellen Wohl1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (VIII, 151 p. 54 illus., 49 illus. in color.) SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,2191-55473-319-65123-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Rivers as Ecosystems -- Chapter3. Human Alterations of Rivers -- Chapter4. Toward Sustainable Rivers and Water Resources.This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river. Rivers are commonly regarded from a very simplistic perspective as conduits for downstream flows of water. In this context, it may be considered acceptable and necessary to engineer the channel to either facilitate such flows (e.g., channelization, levees) or limit flows and store water (e.g., water supply reservoirs, flood control). The book presents the concept of a river as a spatially and temporally complex ecosystem that is likely to be disrupted in unexpected and damaging ways by direct river engineering and by human activities throughout a drainage basin.  Viewing a river as a complex ecosystem with nonlinear responses to human activities will help to promote a more nuanced and effective approach to managing river ecosystems and to sustaining the water resources that derive from rivers. In this context, water resources refers to ecosystem services including water supply, water quality, flood control, erosion control, and riverine biota (e.g., freshwater fisheries). Chapters in this book draw extensively on existing literature but integrate this literature from a fresh perspective. General principles are expanded upon and illustrated with photographs, line drawings, tables, and brief, site-specific case studies from rivers around the world.SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,2191-5547Marine sciencesFresh waterHydrologyBiotic communitiesGeomorphologyEnvironmental managementSustainable developmentMarine & Freshwater Scienceshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U36000Hydrology/Water Resourceshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/211000Ecosystemshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L1904XGeomorphologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J16010Environmental Managementhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U17009Sustainable Developmenthttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U34000Marine sciences.Fresh water.Hydrology.Biotic communities.Geomorphology.Environmental management.Sustainable development.Marine & Freshwater Sciences.Hydrology/Water Resources.Ecosystems.Geomorphology.Environmental Management.Sustainable Development.551.4Wohl Ellenauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut782273BOOK9910299400503321Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources2507991UNINA