Conceptual and Mathematical Modelling in River Restoration: Do We Have Unreasonable Confidence?

River Restoration: Managing the Uncertainty in Restoring Physical Habitat

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 61-78

  Stewardson, Michael ^a   Rutherfurd, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Analysis of uncertainties; Channelised streams and stream restoration; Geomorphic conceptual model; Geomorphic modelling uncertainties; Model uncertainty; Stream channel change process based conceptual models; Stream restoration geomorphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149083790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470867082.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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