Resilience and Riverine Landscapes presents contributed chapters from global experts in Riverine Landscapes, making it the most comprehensive reference available on the topic. The book explores why rivers are ideal landscapes to study resilience and why studying rivers from a resilience perspective is important for our biophysical understanding of these landscapes and for society. The book focuses on the biophysical character of resilience in riverine landscapes, providing an interdisciplinary perspective of the structure, function, and interactions of riverine landscapes and the ecosystems they contain. The editors conclude by proposing a research agenda for the future, emphasizing the need for transdisciplinary research across a range of spatial and temporal scales and research domains. Presents the resilience of rivers with both a theoretical and applied focus Includes case studies from a wide geographical base, allowing for a full range of viewpoints Showcases how resilience is being incorporated into the study and management of riverine landscapes Includes a transdisciplinary focus on riverine landscapes, from theory to applied, and from biophysical to social-ecological systems INDICE: Introduction 1. Riverine landscapes from a resilience perspective: Past, present and future 2. Metaphors of resilience and their implications for rivers, science, and society 3. The relevance of resilience to river ecosystems Biophysical perspectives of resilience in riverine landscapes 4. Why riverine landscapes to study resilience? 5. Thresholds, tipping points, and regime shifts: what are they and what can they tell us 6. Rivers and resilience: a longer-term view from the drylands 7. Trajectories of change across floodplain landscapes 8. The resilience of freshwater networks 9. Resilience of riverine ecological networks: scaling from communities to spatial meta-networks in connected riverine landscapes 10. Resistance, resilience and river recovery 11. Strengthening our river ecosystems against climatic changes: Resilience and river ecology 12. Drought, disturbance and river resilience in the Murray Darling Basin Australia 13. A river resilience tool Social - Ecological perspectives of resilience across riverine landscapes 14. Power, agency and resistance: the contested meaning of resilience in social and ecological disciplines 15. River organisations and Social-Ecological resilience 16. Indigenous knowledge contributions to river resilience 17. Tropical mega-deltas: assessing social-ecological system resilience 18. Sustainability and river resilience 19. Policy, governance and river resilience 20. What does resilience mean for managing the nations rivers? 21. Financing River Resilience: Alternative approaches for impact investing? in river restoration The application and implication of resilience in riverine landscapes 22. Resilience and the implications for Anthropocene rivers 23. Resilience-based challenges and opportunities for fisheries management in Anthropocene rivers 24. Trajectories of Floodplain Functions and Implications for Resilient Floodplain Management 25. Resilience, the physical science of rivers and their management 26. Resilience and river management 27. Flow management through a resilience lens 28. Life on the Mississippi at a time of climate change: What Mark Twain could not have anticipated but we can and must 29. Social-ecological resilience of the Columbia 30. Social considerations of river resilience in Aotearoa 31. Integrating resilience and the study of riverine landscapes: The way forward
- ISBN: 978-0-323-91716-2
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 500
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2023
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés