Naturalness and Place in River Rehabilitation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7755740 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirstie Fryirs, Kirstie A Fryirs (0000-0003-0541-3384, Macquarie University), Gary Brierley (0000-0002-1310-1105, University of Auckland), Gary J Brierley |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance, Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-02789-140120 |
| OpenAlex | W1597339747 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 12 |
An authentic approach to river rehabilitation emphasizes concerns for the natural values of a given place. As landscape considerations fashion the physical template upon which biotic associations take place, various geomorphic issues must be addressed in framing rehabilitation activities that strive to improve river health. An open-ended approach to river classification promotes applications that appreciate the values of a given river, rather than pigeonholing reality. As the geomorphic structure of some rivers is naturally simple, promoting heterogeneity as a basis for management may not always be appropriate. Efforts to protect unique attributes of river systems must be balanced with procedures that look after common features. Concerns for ecosystem functionality must relate to the behavioral regime of a given river, remembering that some rivers are inherently sensitive to disturbance. Responses to human disturbance must be viewed in relation to natural variability, recognizing how spatial relationships in a catchment, and responses to past disturbances, fashion the operation of contemporary fluxes. These fluxes, in turn, influence what is achievable in the rehabilitation of a given reach. Given the inherently adjusting and evolutionary nature of river systems, notional endpoints do not provide an appropriate basis upon which to promote concepts of naturalness and place in the rehabilitation process. These themes are drawn together to promote rehabilitation practices that relate to the natural values of each river system, in preference to applications of "cookbook" measures that build upon textbook geomorphology
Business · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Naturalness · Notional amount · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes · Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies · Psychology · Soil erosion and sediment transport · Ecology · Geology · Rehabilitation
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Intervenção
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Critical Physical Geography
Changing Course
Measure, model, optimise
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Intervention
Development and application of vision statements in river rehabilitation
Nature, culture, and the work of physical geography
Seeing double in art and geoscience
The Geographic Basis of Geomorphic Enquiry
Governance Spaces for Sustainable River Management
Prospects for, and Challenges of, Research Design and Training in Cross-Disciplinary Environmental Management Research
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The River Continuum Concept
Uncertainty as Information
Landscape Sensitivity and Change
Restoring Riparian Ecosystems
Process-Based Ecological River Restoration
What Is a Natural River
Resilience
River Restoration and Meanders
The Importance of Social Learning in Restoring the Multifunctionality of Rivers and Floodplains
The Myths of Restoration Ecology
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |