British Rivers

ISBN-13: 9781032735573 / Angielski

John Lewin

Opis

Originally published in 1981, this book describes and interprets the physical nature of British rivers and is authored by leading authors from universities, the Institute of Hydrology and a water Authority. 

Recenzje

Original review of British Rivers:

‘…the most engaging book on river systems yet to appear in Britain.’ Chris C. Park, Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment , Vol 6, Issue 4, 1982.

Spis treści

1. Water Planning 2. The Water Planning System 3. Planning Water Supplies 4. Effluent Disposal and Pollution Control 5. Planning Water for Recreation and Amenity 6. Land Drainage and Flood Alleviation 7. The Political Character of Water Planning.

O autorze

John Lewin is Emeritus Professor at Aberystwyth University, UK, having also become Dean of Science and then Vice Principal  & Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Aberystwyth in the more than forty years that have passed since British Rivers was first published. He continues with publishing research on rivers and floodplains, now taking advantage of new techniques that have become available on a global scale. This now includes work on the world's largest rivers, but also on human impacts such as from historic settlement, mining and recent vegetation changes in Britain. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.   

Rob Ferguson is emeritus Professor of Physical Geography at Durham University. His BA and PhD were completed at Cambridge and he held academic posts in the Universities of Hull, Stirling and Sheffield before Durham. His research focused initially on river channel morphology and channel change. These form the subject of his chapter in this book, and his emphasis therein on the importance of stream power has been influential. His later work includes many highly-cited contributions on flow and sediment transport processes in rivers using various combinations of physical theory, numerical modelling and data analysis.

Malcolm Newson has fifty years’ experience in research and applications in hydrology, fluvial geomorphology and freshwater/wetland conservation. He has completed 90 consultancy reports in addition to an academic output of 200 refereed papers and eight books. He is co-author of the Guidebook of Applied Fluvial Geomorphology. His particular expertise is ‘hydromorphology’, combining his research in hydrology and geomorphology in a little understood field of knowledge but one which is pivotal to the Water and Habitats Directives as well as to freshwater ecosystems (including their restoration and rehabilitation) and the impacts of climate change, notably severe floods.

Bruce Webb studied Geology and Geography and undertook his doctoral research on water chemistry in the Department of Geography, University of Exeter, where he spent his subsequent academic career.  His research interests lay primarily in the field of water quality, latterly with a particular focus on the thermal behaviour of stream and river systems, but he also studied sediments, particulate-associated substances, nutrients and general chemistry in rivers.  His work encompassed methods for estimating fluvial fluxes of sediments and chemical substances as well as the impact of changing water quality on stream ecology occasioned by changes in climate and land-use.  He is the author and editor of over 140 books, journal articles and research reports, and during his career, he served as Secretary and President of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences International Commission on Water Quality and Secretary and President of the British Hydrological Society.  He retired from the University of Exeter in September 2011.