Land and Water, River Management Flashcards
What is the key aspect of river management?
That management strategies are place appropriate
How has the framing of river management changed?
Humans are not in control, they are a component of nature’s ecosystem. Rivers have their own rights
What are the two approaches to river repair?
- Competitive
- Cooperative
What are the six main characteristics of competitive approaches to river repair?
- Anthropocentric
- Humans dominant over nature
- Externalized management
- Expert driven, discipline-bound
- Top-down approach
- Prioritises ecnonomy
An anthropocentric approach that places humans as the dominant force over nature. Management is externalized and driven by experts in a top-down approach that prioritises economy
What are the six main charcateristics of cooperative river repair?
- River-centric
- Mutual interdependence and reciprocity
- Locally engaged (citizen science)
- Collective learning
- Grass roots approach
- Prioritises environment
A river-centric approach that recognises humans as part of a larger ecosystem. Management engages the local community and utilises place-based knowledges in a grass roots approach that prioritises the environment
Anthropocene
An informal geological era that marks the dominance and impacts of humans on the global environment, beginning with the Industrial Revolution
What three factors allowed human civilisation to flourish?
- Migration out of Africa
- Agriculture
- Settlement near water
Hydraulic civilisations
A urban network centered around a large and reliable water source for agricultural purposes
What are the three tools of colonial societies?
- Guns (warfare)
- Germs (disease)
- Steel (land use changes)
The Great Acceleration
The global scale changes that humans have made to the Earth’s form and processes
What is meant by humans being in a “no analogue state”?
The alternations humans have made to the Earth system are incomparable to almost all other Earth-driven processes. All elements have been altered (and continue to be altered) at varying rates and scales
What are the three future prospects of humanity’s relationship with the Earth?
- Planetary boundaries
- State shift (balance between resilience and vulnerability)
- Future will change in ways rhat are immeasurable and unimaginable
Why don’t many river management strategies work?
They do not account for the interconnectivity of enviornmental elements or recognise the value of intersectional knowledge between different disciplines and people.
Why don’t compromise solutions work?
Compromises either alleviate symptoms (but not causes) of human impact, or fix a singular component that is part of a multi-scalar ecosystem
What are the four stages of designing a coherent catchment framework?
- Learning river character and behaviour
- Learning river evolution and geomorphic condition
- Analysing river recovery potential
- Applying management strategies
