Author(s): G. jock Kondolf
Publisher: Wiley
Date : 2002
Pages : 1
Format : PDF
OCR : Y
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Language : English
ISBN-10 : 047149142X
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Product Description
In past eld there has been a scarred process in resource and job in river restoration. Methods in Fluvial Geomorphology provides an desegrated move to the interdisciplinary nature of the person and offers counselling for researchers and professionals on the tools acquirable to respond questions on river direction on rattling disagreement scales.
* Each chapter is union to counterbalance everything from generalized concepts to limited techniques
* Topics awninged allow phylogenesis of methods, guiding concepts, a support for determining when to administer limited tools, advantages and regulating of the tools, sources of data, equipment and supplies needed, and a unofficial table
* Provides the professed with a multipurpose reference concealment every tools utilised in fluvial geomorphology
* Also provides priceless aggregation on the advantages and limitations of the tools
* All chapters allow housing studies to provide examples of the applications of the tools discussed
From the Back Cover
“If your exclusive agency is a hammer, every difficulty looks same a nail.”
Fluvial Geomorphology, the think of riverine landforms and the processes that display them, is a develop of synthesis, with roots in geology, geography, and river engineering, and which draws upon united fields of hydrology, chemistry, physics, ecology, and manlike and uncolored history. Thanks mostly to these roots, the arrange of tools utilised in the earth is exceptionally diverse, with most tools borrowed from these united fields, and whatever tools matured within fluvial geomorphology. However, individualist researchers and practitioners typically administer exclusive tools with which they are already familiar, commonly the methods utilised by their bag discipline.
This aggregation presents a broad analyse of the tools utilised in Fluvial Geomorphology, at a take fit to pass activity of investigate method for the scientist or correct enrollee in fluvial geomorphology, or for the professed in another fields of river management.
Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology focuses on structural methods within which techniques are applied. The chapters are cursive by specialists in the field, and are familiarised to providing counselling into how to move problems and how to superior pertinent tools to respond the questions posed. Because the pick of agency should study from the discourse posed, this aggregation presents tools in the environment of structural questions.
This book:
* Covers fivesome important types of structural questions and their related tools: arts framework; abstraction framework; chemical, fleshly and natural methods; psychotherapy of processes and forms; and support for moulding forthcoming behavior.
* Includes housing studies illustrating applications of the tools discussed.
* Includes chapters which cover: phylogenesis of methods; guiding concepts; when to administer limited tools; advantages and regulating of the tools; sources of data; equipment and supplies needed; and examples of the application.
* Describes tools from a difference of sources: tralatitious geology and fleshly geography; far perception and GIS; and the covering of concepts from another fields much as subject engineering, mechanics and ecology.
* Focuses not exclusive on the field/laboratory methods and techniques but also to key concepts and methods that are basic for forthcoming the practical problems.
This reference is primary for researchers and professed geomorphologists, hydrologists, geologists, ecologists, engineers and planners, and professed organisations. It is a multipurpose added book for bunk take collegian and MSc courses in Fluvial Geomorphology and Catchment Management taught within Departments of Geography, Environmental Science and Geology, Ecology, Environmental Planning, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and united fields.
Product Details
* Hardcover: 697 pages
* Publisher: Wiley (April 11, 2002)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 047149142X
* ISBN-13: 978-0471491422
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