ABSTRACT
Themes from the first six chapters were collated (Table 7.1) and argued to represent the essential requirements from which river channel management was being re-defined in the late twentieth century. Four requirements identified as the fundamental building blocks for the new approach (see details on pp. 172–5) were:
new scientific perspectives on river channel management recognizing the challenge of managing the catchment hydrosystem;
legislated concern for sustainability in river channel management underpinned by the requirement for environmental assessment;
recognition that a revised approach to management was needed in which conservation concerns were integral and which included the re-management of river channels as river restoration;
development of new technical practices that strive to work with natural river processes in order to achieve ‘design-with-nature’ solutions.
