Natural vs anthropogenic streams in Europe: History, ecology and implications for restoration, river-rewilding and riverine ecosystem services

AG Brown, L Lespez, DA Sear, JJ Macaire… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract In Europe and North America the prevailing model of “natural” lowland streams is
incised-meandering channels with silt-clay floodplains, and this is the typical template for …

Assessing the geomorphic recovery potential of rivers: forecasting future trajectories of adjustment for use in management

KA Fryirs, GJ Brierley - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In an era of river repair, the concept of recovery enhancement has become central to river
management practice. However, until about the early 2000s there were no coherent …

Off‐site impacts of soil erosion and runoff: Why connectivity is more important than erosion rates

J Boardman, K Vandaele, R Evans… - Soil Use and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Off‐site impacts of soil erosion are of greater social and economic concern in Western
Europe than on‐site impacts. They fall into two related categories: muddy flooding of …

Drawing from Indigenous ontologies and practices to rethink European water policy

J Linton, C Pahl‐Wostl - River research and applications, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this article is to begin a discussion of how Indigenous ontologies and
practices might be brought to bear on water policy and management in Europe. Such a …

Les hybrides, la géographie de la nature et de l'environnement

L Lespez, S Dufour - Annales de géographie, 2021 - cairn.info
À l'ère de l'Anthropocène, la transformation de la nature matérielle par les sociétés est de
mieux en mieux assimilée. De nombreuses recherches proposent ainsi d'envisager la …

The role of hydrosocial heritages produced by hydrosocial territories in understanding environmental conflicts: The case of Sélune dam removals (France)

L Drapier, MA Germaine… - Environment and Planning …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Dam removal has become one of the most widespread tools for river restoration; however,
these projects can be conflictual. Our aim in this paper is to question the disconnection …

Influence of 200 years of water resource management on a typical central European river. Does industrialization straighten a river?

S Wolf, V Esser, H Schüttrumpf, F Lehmkuhl - Environmental Sciences …, 2021 - Springer
Background Over the last 200 years, the courses of most European rivers have experienced
significant irreversible changes. These changes are connected to different kinds of …

Tracking geomorphic recovery in process‐based river management

KA Fryirs, GJ Brierley, F Hancock… - Land Degradation & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Human disturbance induces significant geomorphic changes to river systems. In eastern
Australia, land‐use practices such as clearance of forests and riparian vegetation, and …

[PDF][PDF] Dam removals and river restoration in international perspective

C Sneddon, R Barraud, MA Germaine - Water Alternatives, 2017 - water-alternatives.org
In the Anthropocene era, questions over institutions, economics, culture and politics are
central to the promotion of water-society relations that enhance biophysical resilience and …

Characterizing and quantifying the discontinuous bank erosion of a small low energy river using Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry and erosion pins

M Jugie, F Gob, C Virmoux, D Brunstein, V Tamisier… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
River bank erosion is controlled by a complex combination of factors and processes that
play a main role in fluvial dynamics. However, the role played by lateral erosion in small low …