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River Catchment Planning for Land Drainage, Flood Defence and the Environment
Author(s) -
GARDINER J. L.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.1990.tb01452.x
Subject(s) - drainage basin , legislation , context (archaeology) , plan (archaeology) , drainage , flood myth , environmental planning , land use , land use planning , environmental resource management , environmental science , water resource management , river management , hydrology (agriculture) , computer science , civil engineering , geography , engineering , cartography , political science , ecology , archaeology , geotechnical engineering , law , biology
The paper describes the changing face of river engineering. The environmental assessment procedure implicit in the Water Act 1989 and explicit in other recent legislation requires review of traditional methodology in the context of the entire river catchment environment. Local deficiencies in performance levels, especially in urbanizing catchments, must be interpreted in this light. This approach has been made possible by advances in analytical and computational techniques matched by hardware design. Investigations of problem areas can now be specified as part of a developing integrated river catchment plan, supported by adaptable models and capable of playing an increasingly confident role in strategic land‐use planning.