Integrated River Management

Wang, Zhaoyin; Lee, Heung Wing Joseph; Melching, Charles S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-25652-3_12

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“…Shannon-Wiener index H defined by Krebs [20], integrates taxa richness and the contribution of each taxon in the assemblage. Considering difference attributed to the assemblage abundance, an Improved Shannon-Wiener index B was defined by Wang et al [21] by coupling the abundance with the Shannon-Wiener index H as…”

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Macroinvertebrate Biodiversity Trends and Habitat Relationships within Headwater Rivers of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Zhao

Zhou

et al. 2018

Water

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Highland running-water biodiversity has gained growing interest around the world, because of the more pristine conditions and higher sensitivity to environmental changes of highland rivers compared to the lowland rivers. This study presents the findings of systematic investigations and analyses on running-water biodiversity of macroinvertebrate assemblages in the most important headwater streams in the Yalutsangpo and Sanjiangyuan River basins in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the lowland headwaters of the Songhua River, Juma River, and East River during the non-flood seasons of 2012 to 2016. The results indicated that the headwaters on the plateau had a higher regional biodiversity compared to the lowland rivers with the similar flow and substrate conditions. Even though the local diversity of the highland rivers was not significantly different at each single site, the taxonomic composition was significantly different with several rarely seen species scattering among the different sites, resulting in a high regional biodiversity. The biodiversity and composition of macroinvertebrates were strongly affected by the altitude gradient and the environmental variables associated with altitude. To be specific, for the Yalutsangpo River, canonical correspondence analyses of the macroinvertebrate assemblages and their environmental variables indicated that altitude, stream condition (represented by river pattern, riverbed structures, substrate composition), and water temperature influence macroinvertebrate taxa composition. Because of the restrictive plateau conditions including low water temperature, poor aquatic and riparian vegetation, and low runoff, the macroinvertebrate assemblages showed low biodiversity and were vulnerable to potential human disturbance/climate change. Therefore, it is essential to conserve suitable conditions of the determinative environmental variables to protect the unique and high regional biodiversity of the headwaters on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

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Macroinvertebrate Biodiversity Trends and Habitat Relationships within Headwater Rivers of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Zhao

Zhou

et al. 2018

Water

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“…Various river engineering practices are continuously being developed with the help of deeper insights into basic river principles and relevant analytical methodologies. Numerous advances in the treatment of river‐related problems are centred on studying the characteristics of river evolution in response to internal or external disturbances and balancing the safety of human activities with the sustainable utilization of water resources (Wang, Lee, & Melching, ). Green river development strategies have become an increasingly important topic in many developing countries such as China.…”

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A study of the stochastic evolution of hydraulic geometry relationships

Song

Zhong

Wang

2019

River Research & Apps

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Uncertainty resulting from climatic and environmental changes creates barriers to the accurate acquisition of information about rivers. In this study, a set of stable stochastic differential equations is developed to simulate the dynamic probability distributions of typical hydraulic geometry variables represented by slope, width, depth, and velocity with variations in bankfull discharge over time for a river system. Random parts of the

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“…Climate change continuously poses challenges for management of these multifaceted landscapes (Bormann et al 2012). Integrated management of river landscapes simultaneously deals with surface and ground waters, urban and riverine drainage and discharge, water quality and provision of drinking water (Junier and Mostert 2012;van Eerd et al 2014;Wang et al 2015). The transboundary character of riverine landscapes creates discrepancies between upstream and downstream interests, adding to the management complexities (Wiering et al 2010).…”

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“…The transboundary character of riverine landscapes creates discrepancies between upstream and downstream interests, adding to the management complexities (Wiering et al 2010). Integrated river basin management (IRBM) aims to address this complexity and benefit society, economy and nature while considering interests of all involved countries along the river basin (Rijke 2012;Wang et al 2015;Wiering et al 2010).…”

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Cross-Border Collaboration in River Management: Views on Participation in a Dutch-German Case Study

Panten

Heel

Fliervoet

et al. 2018

Water Resour Manage

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Integrated river basin management (IRBM) calls for participatory practices involving stakeholders along transnational river landscapes. Understanding the complex and diverse views regarding participation is a prerequisite for meaningful involvement of civil actors, especially in a transnational context. In a case study along the Lower Rhine river, we assessed and compared cognitive perceptions towards IRBM of citizen initiatives and nature organizations from Germany and the Netherlands and their previous experiences with participation processes.We found large differences between the four actor groups in motivations to participate as well as in levels of trust towards institutions. This study also showed different views on participation between the two countries with regard to the problem definition, nature images and the perceived relationships between government organisations on the one hand and citizen initiatives and nature organisations on the other hand.The findings suggest that views vary between citizen initiatives and nature organizations within a country and that cultural notions add to the complexity of transnational participation. In transnational participation processes, the varying views between actor groups should be taken into account, as well as the complexities among countries even within actor groups.

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Integrated River Management

Cited by 14 publications

References 42 publications

Macroinvertebrate Biodiversity Trends and Habitat Relationships within Headwater Rivers of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Macroinvertebrate Biodiversity Trends and Habitat Relationships within Headwater Rivers of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

A study of the stochastic evolution of hydraulic geometry relationships

Cross-Border Collaboration in River Management: Views on Participation in a Dutch-German Case Study

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