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This guidance describes practical ways you can protect eroding river banks without increasing erosion risks to other banks downstream while improving bankside habitat. River bank erosion can be costly. It can result in loss of productive land and damage to fencing, tracks and other infrastructure.
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- Resilience to Natural Hazards and Disasters
- Resilience Thinking
- Community Resilience
The concept of resilience has been widely used in ecological research across a variety of disciplines. According to the Macmillan Dictionary resilience means ‘the act of rebounding’, in other words, to bounce back. The resilience concept was first used in the 1620s and originally derived from the Latin word ‘resiliens’. From the early 1970s, the co...
The concept of resilience thinking originally goes back to the study of systems ecology (Holling 1973). However, the specific initiative of resilience thinking for disasters started in the late 1990s, through the establishment of the Resilience Analysis Research Center in Stockholm, Sweden. Later on, the concept of resilience thinking has been used...
Community resilience refers to the capacities and overall structures of a community that enables the community to respond after a disturbance and adapt to change and uncertainty (Cutter et al. 2008; Norris et al. 2008; Tidball and Krasny 2007; Tobin 1999). More specifically, community resilience defines the shared ability of a population within a g...
- Munshi Khaledur Rahman, Thomas W. Crawford, Bimal Kanti Paul, Md. Sariful Islam, Scott Curtis, Md. G...
- 2021
Nov 9, 2022 · River bank erosion leads to lateral migration of channel and formation of meandering channel belt. Noncohesive stream bank material and climatic factors (mainly rainfall and temperature) influence the magnitude of bank failure (Wolman, 1959) while the concave bank is more prone to erosion.
Jul 1, 2020 · In recent years, coastal erosion, river bank erosion and landslides have become more serious, and are considered as disasters because they have such severe impacts on the livelihoods of...
Apr 6, 2017 · The hydrologic characteristics of flow events, however, may also lead to unintended morphologic effects in rivers, such as increases in riverbank erosion beyond natural rates. This may negatively impact habitat for biota, riparian infrastructure, and land use.
- Geoff J Vietz, Anna Lintern, J Angus Webb, David Straccione
- 2018
Feb 6, 2024 · Dimensions of riverbank erosion are manifested through (1) natural dimensions and (2) socioeconomic dimensions. Riverbank erosion is popularly regarded as a natural process because whenever there is lateral erosion of a river, bank erosion is inevitable.
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Aug 28, 2020 · Removing humanmade banks of polluted sediment transforms streams to their former glory. Rivers throughout the eastern United States are well known for their high banks and steep, winding courses.
