This book is intended for those with an academic, scientific and practical interest in river conservation and management. It provides an overview of how changes

contributors - biologists, ecologists, geomorphologists, historians, hydrologists, lawyers, and political scientists - weave together threads from their diverse

This book is intended for those with an academic, scientific and practical interest in river conservation and management. It provides an overview of how changes

Across much of the industrialized world, rivers that were physically transformed and ecologically ruined to facilitate industrial and agricultural development a

The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining some "minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viabilit