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Rivers. --- Brooks --- Creeks --- Runs (Rivers) --- Streams --- Bodies of water

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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Phosphorus --- biogeochemistry --- Monitoring --- Eutrophication --- Estuaries --- Soil --- Rivers --- Lakes --- Oceans

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South Asia which is home to two of the largest river basins in the world has a long history of urban settlements. Several holy towns, believed to be the dwelling places of divine forces have come up along the banks of its rivers as have capital cities and centres of trade. By a study of seven cities and the rivers that flow through them, from Sehwan Sharif on the plains of the Indus in Pakistan to Guwahati on the banks of the Brahmaputra in the state of Assam, from Varanasi and Delhi based respectively in the valleys of the Ganges and the Yamuna to Madurai which lies along the banks of the Vaigai in South India while passing through the pilgrimage centres of Amarkantaka and Omkareshwara on the Narmada basin in Central India, this work explores the multiplicity of the visions and emotions that are generated by the practices and land development along the urban river banks. This collective volume proposes to make a multidisciplinary appraisal of this unique heritage which is today threatened by a rapidly expanding population and pollution as well as of the contemporary mutually contradictory perceptions of devotees and tourists, local actors and national level decision makers and shanty town dwellers and members of the urban middle class. L'Asie du Sud, qui dispose de deux des plus grands bassins hydrographiques de la planète, est l'héritière d'une longue histoire urbaine. De nombreuses villes saintes, considérées comme les demeures de forces divines, se sont développées sur des rives également propices à l'installation de capitales et à l'essor de centres de commerce. À travers l'analyse de sept couples villes/fleuves, des plaines du moyen Indus au Pakistan (Sehwan Sharif) à celle du Brahmapoutre en Assam (Guwahati), de la vallée du Gange et de la Yamuna (Bénarès et Delhi), à celle de la Vaigai en Inde du Sud (Madurai) en passant par le bassin de la Narmada, en Inde centrale (Amarkantaka et Omkareshwar), l'ouvrage explore la multiplicité des visions et des…

Geography --- Ganges --- ghat --- Indus --- India --- Pakistan --- rivers --- cities --- Narmada --- South Asia --- ville --- cours d'eau

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"This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share at Elgaronline. Centralising the role of land and landowners, Spatial Flood Risk Management brings together knowledge from socio-economy, public policy, hydrology, geomorphology, and engineering to establish an interdisciplinary knowledge base on spatial approaches to managing flood risks. Discussing key barriers and sharing evidence-based best practices to flood risk management, international contributors involved in the LAND4FLOOD EU COST action initiative (CA16209) seek transferrable solutions to the implementation challenges of nature-based solutions. Introducing the concept of spatial flood risk management, the multi-national teams of authors consider the notion of land through three analytical lenses: as a biophysical system, a socio-economic resource, and a solution to flood risk management. Advocating for a more comprehensive approach, the book explores options of where and how to store water within catchments, including decentralized water retention in the hinterland, flood storage along rivers, and planned flooding in resilient cities. Bringing together the existing knowledge on the relation between flood risk management and land with an international and interdisciplinary scope, this book will prove invaluable to academics, policy makers and public authorities involved in flood risk management, urban planners, and governing environmental bodies"--

Flood control. --- Flood prevention --- Flood protection --- Floods --- Prevention of floods --- Rivers --- Forest influences --- Prevention --- Regulation

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Estuaries --- Mathematical models --- Branching bays --- Drowned river mouths --- Firths --- River estuaries --- Coasts --- Rivers