Restoring Neighborhood Streams Planning, Design, and Construction /

• Main Author: Riley, Ann L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2016.
• Subjects: Environment.; Hydrology.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Conservation biology.; Ecology.; Environment, general.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.

Thirty years ago, the best thinking on urban stream management prescribed cement as the solution to flooding and other problems of people and flowing water forced into close proximity. Urban streams were perceived as little more than flood control devices designed to hurry water through cities and n...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Is the Restoration of Urban Streams Possible?- 2. Defining Restoration
• 3. An Introduction to the Schools of Restoration
• 4. Evaluations of Watershed Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Hydraulics Schools
• 5. Evaluations of Applied Wildlife Biology
• 6. Neighborhood-Scale Restoration Projects
• 7. Regional Multiobjective Flood-Damage-Reduction Restoration
• 8. A View across All the Cases
• References Cited.