Perspectives on River Interventions
Over the past two decades, river management has added a new approach to the “toolbox” of efforts to undo some of the damage caused by earlier generations of river interventions. Humans have intervened in river flows for millennia, damming water courses and creating levees to shape river flows, all i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Open Rivers |
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https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/perspectives-on-river-interventions/
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| Summary: | Over the past two decades, river management has added a new approach to the “toolbox” of efforts to undo some of the damage caused by earlier generations of river interventions. Humans have intervened in river flows for millennia, damming water courses and creating levees to shape river flows, all in the name of providing expanded benefits from managed river flows. But things have changed recently. |
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| ISSN: | 2471-190X |