Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe - Softcover

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1. Introduction.- 2. Sand and gravel on the move: Human impacts on bed-material load along the lower Rhine River.- 3. Channel responses to global change and local impacts: perspectives and tools for floodplain management.- 4. Impact scales of fluvial response to management along the Sacramento River, California, USA: Transience versus persistence.- 5. Flooding, structural flood control measures, and a geomorphic context for the flood problem along the Red River, Manitoba, Canada.- 6. Flooding, structural flood control measures, and a geomorphic context for the flood problem along the Red River, Manitoba, Canada.- 7. Geomorphic Perspectives of Managing, Modifying and Restoring a River with Prolonged Flooding: Kissimmee River, Florida, USA.- 8. Managing the Mississippi River Floodplain: Achieving ecological benefits requires more than hydrological connection to the river.- 9. The role of floodplain restoration in mitigating flood risk, Lower Missouri River, USA.- 10. Post-dam channel and floodplain adjustment to the Lower Volga River, Russia.- 11. Embanking the Lower Danube: from natural to engineered floodplains and back.- 12. Historical Development and Integrated Management of the Rhône River Floodplain, from the Alps to the Camargue Delta, France.- 13. The Role of Floodplain Geomorphology in Policy and Management Decisions along the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana.- 14. The palimpsest of river-floodplain management and the role of geomorphology.

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