Rivers

Historical and future climate change is likely to be one of the key drivers of alterations seen in catchments globally. The implications of changing precipitation patterns in particular range from increased seasonality of flows, to changing frequency, duration, and severity of e…

Algonquin Provincial Park (APP), located in south-central Ontario, spans an area of 7,635 km 2 and is a destination for over 800,000 visitors a year. These visitors include cottage owners, as cottages have been leased in APP since the early 1900s. In October 2017, policy makers …

Accurate projections of flooding are critical to climate change adaptation, as floods are a devastating and costly natural disaster sensitive to climate. Floods occur mainly in response to extreme precipitation, and the northeastern United States has experienced a dramatic incre…

Many rivers have been channelized and straightened in large parts of the world in the past centuries. These measures were taken to drain the land, to produce hydropower, to enhance navigation and to reduce bank erosion. However, in the last decades, realization has grown that ch…

This study examines how people in the farming districts in central-western New South Wales constituted their communities. It responds to gaps in historians' understanding of settler society beyond the country towns, and contributes to the literature on rural Australia's dispropo…

This thesis describes population characteristics of Blue Catfish Ictalurus furcatus and Flathead Catfish Pylodictis olivaris within the Robert C. Byrd Pool of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. Three chapters are included as follows: 1) An introduction and literature review, 2) An ass…

In this dissertation I examine the failure to find a negotiated solution for managing transboundary water resources among Turkey, Syria and Iraq, and propose an integrated approach with a focus on human security and redefined national interest. This approach incorporates knowled…

This thesis examines the challenges for environmental research in UK archives and presents possible solutions for archivists to implement. It is the result of a collaboration between the University of Liverpool (jointly between the departments of Geography and History) and the S…

Rivers play a symbolic role in the story of Israel's formation as a people found within the Hebrew Bible. From the primeval period to the return from exile, Israel's history and understanding of themselves as a people with shared identity and collective memory is tied to their i…

Flooding problems may never be solved as long as people live in proximity of riverbanks with high inundation risk. A rational approach well embraced by civil engineers is to derive flood estimates and adopt mitigation measures corresponding to an acceptable risk level. However s…

Estimating the relative contribution of heavy metals and nutrients loads from diffuse and point sources and various hydrological pathways is a major research challenge in catchment hydrology. Understanding of the transfer, loads and concentration of these loads in basins is usef…