Planning River Restoration Projects: Social and Cultural Dimensions

River Restoration: Managing the Uncertainty in Restoring Physical Habitat

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 41-60

  Kondolf, G Mathias ^a   Yang, Chia Ning ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural preferences shaping restoration goals; Culturally driven landscape preferences; Ecological engineering approach; Natural channel migration; Restoration planning and design uncertainties; River and stream restoration; Stream restoration public participation; Wildlife contact interaction modes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889459863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470867082.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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