Category Archives: River restoration

The rise of “river restoration”

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Adam Broadhead

I read Simon’s (a.k.a. @woodinrivers) great blog post on defining river restoration, and the differences between restoration, rehabilitation, re-creation and enhancement. To build on this further, I thought it would be interesting to provide some brief statistics (via Scopus) on … Continue reading →

Posted in paper review, River Management, River restoration | Tagged academic literature, river restoration, science | Leave a comment

What is River Restoration?

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Simon Dixon

This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time; What is River Restoration? I’ve started, abandoned, rewritten and gone off on tangents with it a dozen times as although it seems a simple question it touches … Continue reading →

Posted in Ecology, Geomorphology, River Management, River restoration, Water Framework Directive | 10 Comments

A geomorphological assessment of Constable’s landscapes

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Simon Dixon

John Constable is recognised as one of the great English Romantic landscape painters and many of his paintings are of rivers. In a slightly tongue-in-cheek post I want to explore the geomorphology of some of his chosen subjects to demonstrate … Continue reading →

Posted in Anglian, Chalk streams, Ecology, Geomorphology, Hydrology, River Management, River restoration | 9 Comments

Public access to rivers & its impacts

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Simon Dixon

Last week George Monbiot in the Guardian wrote a piece about the private ownership of rivers in relation to navigation access. To briefly summarise; the vast majority of English rivers are in private ownership and despite some legal confusion, currently … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, River Management, River restoration | 5 Comments

The EU RESTORE Rivers Wiki

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Trevor Bond

Trev takes some time to introduce and explain the European RESTORE Rivers Wiki; a valuable tool for river managers Continue reading →

Posted in River restoration | Tagged enhancement, Europe, rehabilitation, restoration, RESTORE, rivers, Wiki | 1 Comment

What to do with lost urban rivers beneath our feet

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Adam Broadhead

In his second post on The River Management blog, Adam Broadhead poses the question; what should we do with the lost urban rivers beneath our feet? Continue reading →

Posted in Ecology, Flooding, River restoration, Urban rivers | Tagged daylighting, management, restoration, restoration techniques, river restoration, stream management, Water Framework Directive | 2 Comments

Lost urban rivers beneath our feet

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Adam Broadhead

In our first guest blog, Adam Broadhead introduces the concept of lost urban rivers and explains to us why they are so important Continue reading →

Posted in Ecology, Geomorphology, River restoration, Urban rivers, Water Framework Directive | Tagged environment, land-use change, nature, Porter Brook, restoration, science, Sheffield, stream management, SuDS, urban river, Urban stream, urbanisation, URS, Water Framework Directive | 9 Comments

The only way (for nature) is Essex

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Trevor Bond

The only way for nature is Essex…perhaps! Continue reading →

Posted in Anglian, Geomorphology, River restoration | Tagged East Anglia, Essex, fluvial processes, gravel bar, log-jam, natural functioning | Leave a comment

Perceptions of naturalness in rivers

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Simon Dixon

Loosely connected to my ongoing series of posts about river restoration I thought I would review a few scientific papers that I think are some of the most illuminating on the relationship between humans and rivers. The two key papers … Continue reading →