Creating false images: Stream restoration in an urban setting

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 468-482

  Cockerill, Kristan ^a   Anderson, William P ^b  

^a Department of Cultural Gender and Global Studies   (United States)

^b APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pre and post monitoring; Public perception; Stream restoration; Thermal pollution; Urban streams

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; THERMAL POLLUTION;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; LAND USE PATTERN; PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION; PUBLIC PERCEPTION; RESTORATION PROJECT; STREAM RESTORATION; URBAN STREAM;

RESTORATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; LAND USE CHANGE; PERCEPTION; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; STREAMWATER; THERMAL POLLUTION; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84897916724     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12131     Document Type: Article

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