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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doaj-7a80669c76a74ccb961ac5d959710de92021-08-03T01:04:21ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingOpen Rivers2471-190X2016-10-01Issue Four : Fall 2016https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.2220Perspectives on River InterventionsPatrick NunnallyOver 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. https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/perspectives-on-river-interventions/ planning / policypolicyunited states |
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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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