Chapter One
Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology:
Problem Statement and Recent Practice
G. MATHIAS KONDOLF AND HERVÉ PIÉGAY
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
UMR 5600, CNRS, Lyon, France
As explained by Wolman (1995) in a manuscript titled
"Play: the handmaiden of work", much geomorphological
research is applied, and geomorphologists
compete with other disciplines for funding from
public agencies. Moreover, geomorphologists are increasingly
in demand to participate in ecological restoration
projects because of the spatial and temporal
scales at which they analyze channel change and sensitivity,
which can provide insights for solving problems
in river engineering (Giardino and Marston
1999) and ecological river restoration (Brookes and
Shields 1996). As do all scientists, fluvial geomorphologists
employ tools in their research, but the
range of tools is probably broader in this field than
others because of its position on the intersection of
geology, geography, and river engineering. Increasingly,
the tools of fluvial geomorphology have been
a ... read full excerpt from Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology ebook
