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Challenges in Managing Fluvial Systems in the Anthropocene: Innovations in Analysing Rivers Co-evolving with Human Activities
Human actions over the last 100-300 years have become an integral if not dominant influence on the hydrology, geomorphology, and ecological functioning of fluvial systems, with significant implications for developing approaches to river management that ensure river resilience and maximise their long-term ecosystem service potential. Analysing fluvial systems over such time-scales requires that human activities are considered along with natural factors during the diagnostic process, and that analyses are capable of locale-specific differentiation of cause and effect by integrating local- to catchment-scale drivers for change. This challenge requires novel analytical methods applicable at ‘historical’ spatial and temporal scales: progress is being facilitated by advances in remotely-sensed and passively-monitored data, enhanced modelling capabilities, novel uses of historical data and sediment archives, etc. This knowledge exchange workshop will showcase innovative methods for studying the co-evolutionary trajectory of river systems with discussions focused on developing joint academic-practitioner viewpoints of the primary challenges facing sustainable approaches to river management in the Anthropocene.