Abstract Human proximity to water and its dynamics are important understanding the socio-hydrological dilemma between using floodplains avoiding flood risk. However, previous studies have not distinguished of built-up land in (BLF) outside (BLOF). This article provides a new spatiotemporal perspective BLF proximities for changing risk China. The results show that China’s BLFs had an average 5.4...

The assessment of visitor understanding and perceptions natural landscapes attitudes towards functions a river national park is important for the acceptance success management. study asked 426 visitors to Donau-Auen (Danube Floodplains) National Park in Eastern Austria about their affinity brand, park, what extent perceive Danube Floodplains as at all. results show that large proportion respond...

Semi-arid rangelands show much spatial heterogeneity, with some parts producing more and better quality food for herbivores. The concepts of ‘Key Resource’ and ‘Key Resource Area’ have been developed to describe a resource that ‘provides good-quality forage’ and that ‘reduces (inter-)annual variation in forage supply’. Illius and O’Connor (1999) formalised these concepts, arguing that in key re...

T he great Midwestern flood of 1993 broke flow records along 1600 km of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and caused up to $16 billion in damages (1, 2). Formal reviews of U.S. flood-control policy, both before and after the 1993 flood, concluded that the optimum strategy for reducing flood losses is to limit or even reduce infrastructure on floodplains. New emphases on flood-damage preventio...

Quantity and quality of sediment deposition in complex floodplains are affected by many processes that are typically highly spatially and temporally variable and hard to quantify exactly. The main processes in this context are suspended sediment transport dynamics in rivers, floodplain channel interactions, and internal floodplain processes. In consequence, any point measurement of sedimentatio...