Overview
- Provides information, guidance, and encouragement for practitioners undertaking stream restoration projects.
- Written in a reader-friendly narrative style
- illustrated with technical drawings and photos
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Authors and Affiliations
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San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, Oakland, USA
Ann L. Riley
About the author
In both her private- and public-sector work, she has championed jobs and training for conservation and youth corps. In 1982 she cofounded the Urban Creeks Council in California and in 1993 was instrumental in organizing the first conference of the Coalition to Restore Urban Waters, a national network of urban stream and river organizations. In 1984 she spearheaded a program under the auspices of the California Department of Water Resources that continues today to provide grants supporting urban stream restoration.
Dr. Riley’s work in river restoration is nationally recognized and she has garnered numerous awards over her long career, including an American Rivers award in1993 for her leadership in establishing a national urban river movement, the California Governors’ Environmental and Economic Leadership award in 2003, and the Salmonid Restoration Federation Restorationist of the Year Award in 2004.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Restoring Neighborhood Streams
Book Subtitle: Planning, Design, and Construction
Authors: Ann L. Riley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-741-4
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Ann Riley 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-741-4Published: 31 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment, general, Hydrology/Water Resources, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Conservation Biology/Ecology