Summary 1 To encourage more project assessment and reporting of restoration outcomes,
Palmer et al.(2005) propose five criteria for assessing the ecological success of river …

This book is intended for those with an academic, scientific and practical interest in river
conservation and management. It provides an overview of how changes in legislation …

With $2 billion spent annually on stream restoration worldwide, there is a pressing need for
guidance in this area, but until now, there was no comprehensive text on the subject. Filling …

Summary 1 Increasingly, river managers are turning from hard engineering solutions to
ecologically based restoration activities in order to improve degraded waterways. River …

Rivers have been diminished, simplified, and degraded globally by the concentration of
agriculture, transportation, and development in valley bottoms over decades and centuries …

Summary 1 The authors of 'Standards for ecologically successful restoration'(Palmer et al.
2005) are commended for clearly articulating and discussing the nuances of establishing …

In an era of river repair, the concept of recovery enhancement has become central to river
management practice. However, until about the early 2000s there were no coherent …

Across much of the industrialized world, rivers that were physically transformed and
ecologically ruined to facilitate industrial and agricultural development are now the focus of …

Streams and rivers serve many purposes, including water supply, wildlife habitat, energy
generation, transportation and recreation. A stream is a dynamic, complex system that …

This special issue of Ecology and Society on restoring riverine landscapes draws together
nine presentations from the Second International Symposium on Riverine Landscapes …