Sediment Matters

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Johannes Cullmann, Peter Heininger

   Pages 1-10

3. Sediment Transport Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Sediment Transport in Headwater Streams of the Carpathian Flysch Belt: Its Nature and Recent Effects of Human Interventions

      • Tomáš Galia, Jan Hradecký, Václav Škarpich

      Pages 13-26

   3. Aspects of Sediment Transport in Single-Thread and Anabranching River Channels in Flysch Carpathians (A Case Study from the Czech Republic)

      • Václav Škarpich, Tomáš Galia, Jan Hradecký

      Pages 27-38

   4. Sediment Transport Processes Related to the Operation of a Rapid Hydraulic Structure (Boulder Ramp) in a Mountain Stream Channel: A Polish Carpathian Example

      • Karol Plesiński, Artur Radecki-Pawlik, Bartłomiej Wyżga

      Pages 39-58

4. Modelling Sediment Transfer in Rivers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Challenges in Modelling Sediment Matters

      • Hafzullah Aksoy

      Pages 61-81

   3. Suspended Sediment Estimation Using an Artificial Intelligence Approach

      • Mustafa Demirci, Fatih Üneş, Sebahattin Saydemir

      Pages 83-95

   4. Projected Climate Change Impact on Soil Erosion and Sediment Yield in the River Elbe Catchment

      • Thorsten Pohlert

      Pages 97-108

5. Sediment Quality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Water Quality and Sediment Management in Brahmaputra Basin of India: Impact of Agricultural Land Use

      • Uttam C. Sharma, Vikas Sharma

      Pages 111-127

   3. Contamination of Sediments in the German North Sea Estuaries Elbe, Weser and Ems and Its Sensitivity to Climate Change

      • Carmen Kleisinger, Holger Haase, Uwe Hentschke, Birgit Schubert

      Pages 129-149

6. Sediment Monitoring

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Application of a New Monitoring Strategy and Analysis Concept of Suspended Sediments in Austrian Rivers

      • Petra Lalk, Marlene Haimann, Helmut Habersack

      Pages 153-167

   3. Investigation of the Metal Contamination in the Upper Olifants Primary Catchment by Using Stream Sediment Geochemistry, Witbank Coalfield, South Africa

      • Robert Netshitungulwana, Bisrat Yibas, Christoph Gauert, Danie Vermeulen, Obed Novhe, Tshepa Motlakeng

      Pages 169-184

7. Sediment Managing in River Basins

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. An Approach to Simulating Sediment Management in the Mekong River Basin

      • Thomas B. Wild, Daniel P. Loucks

      Pages 187-199

   3. Sediment Management on River-Basinscale: The River Elbe

      • Peter Heininger, Ilka Keller, Ina Quick, René Schwartz, Stefan Vollmer

      Pages 201-247

This book presents insights into the complex processes controlling sediment behavior in river basins and into state of the art integrated sediment management concepts. Main topics are: sediment transport, modelling sediment transfer in rivers, sediment quality, sediment monitoring and integrated sediment management at catchment scale. Interlinkages of sediment dynamics and quality with biogeochemistry, ecology, climate change and human activities are discussed. Drivers, boundary conditions and processes of erosion, sediment transport and sedimentation are presented with the aim to help the reader putting sediment quantity and quality issues into perspective.

• Climate change
• Contaminated sediments
• Modelling sediment processes
• River basin
• River basin management
• Sediment
• Sediment dynamics
• Sediment management
• Sediment monitoring
• Sediment processes
• Sediment quality
• marine and freshwater sciences

• IHP/HWRP Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany

  Peter Heininger, Johannes Cullmann

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