British Rivers (ePub)

John Lewin is Emeritus Professor at Aberystwyth University, UK, having also become Dean of Science and then Vice Principal & Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Aberystwyth in the more than forty years that have passed since British Rivers was first published. He continues with publishing research on rivers and floodplains, now taking advantage of new techniques that have become available on a global scale. This now includes work on the world's largest rivers, but also on human impacts such as from historic settlement, mining and recent vegetation changes in Britain. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Rob Ferguson is emeritus Professor of Physical Geography at Durham University. His BA and PhD were completed at Cambridge and he held academic posts in the Universities of Hull, Stirling and Sheffield before Durham. His research focused initially on river channel morphology and channel change. These form the subject of his chapter in this book, and his emphasis therein on the importance of stream power has been influential. His later work includes many highly-cited contributions on flow and sediment transport processes in rivers using various combinations of physical theory, numerical modelling and data analysis.

Malcolm Newson has fifty years' experience in research and applications in hydrology, fluvial geomorphology and freshwater/wetland conservation. He has completed 90 consultancy reports in addition to an academic output of 200 refereed papers and eight books. He is co-author of the Guidebook of Applied Fluvial Geomorphology. His particular expertise is 'hydromorphology', combining his research in hydrology and geomorphology in a little understood field of knowledge but one which is pivotal to the Water and Habitats Directives as well as to freshwater ecosystems (including their restoration and rehabilitation) and the impacts of climate change, notably severe floods.

Bruce Webb studied Geology and Geography and undertook