River Management Challenges: a European perspective to 2020
You are invited to attend a lecture by Geoff Petts, one of the best-known scientists working in the field of river restoration and management.
River Management Challenges: a European perspective to 2020
Geoff Petts, University of Westminster
Wed 16 January 630pm, Rm 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Talk précis: The need to advance an interdisciplinary approach to river management that incorporates hydrology, geomorphology, ecology, engineering, social sciences, and environmental planning is now widely accepted by both academics and policy makers. This talk explores what this means in practice for river management in an environment dominated by human-modified landscapes with uncertain hydro-climatic futures.
Geoff Petts is Vice Chancellor of the University of Westminster, President of the International Society for River Science, and founding Editor-in-Chief of the international journal River Research and Applications. His research is at the interface of hydrology, geomorphology and ecology on rivers (in Arctic to Mediterranean environments), and he is probably best known for his pioneering work on rivers impounded by dams, a field he helped establish with his book Regulated Rivers (1984). He has served on programme management committees for UNESCO and the US Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, and was Director of the International Water Resources Association and member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Scientific Committee on Water Research.
The lecture is free and open to the public, and is hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, the College of Environmental Design, and the Science Program of the California Delta Stewardship Council.