Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / John Bardach
  • Rivers
  • a geomorphic and chemical overview / Robert R. Curry
  • What is a river?
  • a zoological description / Kenneth W. Cummins
  • Plant ecology in flowing water / John L. Blum
  • Commentary / Ruth Patrick
  • Man's impact on the Columbia River / Parker Trefethen
  • The Delaware River
  • a study in water quality management / Robert V. Thomann
  • Man and the Illinois River / William C. Starrett
  • The Nile River
  • a case history / Desmond Hammerton
  • Case history
  • the River Thames / Kenneth H. Mann
  • Uses of the Danube River / Reinhard Liepolt
  • Commentary / E.D. LeCren
  • Regulated discharge and the stream environment / Jack C. Fraser
  • Morphometric changes / T. Blench
  • Sedimentation (suspended solids) / H.A. Einstein
  • A comparative assessment of thermal effects in some British and North American rivers / T.E. Langford
  • Effects of pesticides and industrial waste on surface water use / William A. Brungs
  • Radionuclides in river systems / Daniel J. Nelson, S.V. Kaye and R.S. Booth
  • Nutrients / Walter M. Sanders
  • Commentary / Theodore P. Vande Sande
  • Rationalization of multiple use of rivers / John Cairns Jr.
  • Multiple use of river systems
  • an economic framework / James Crutchfield
  • Political aspects of multiple use / John D. Dingell
  • Summary of symposium / Justin W. Leonard.