Readings

    • Tema 1: The river and its valley. Geomorphology and Fluvial Dynamics.

      •  Vizcaíno, Pilar, Kondolf, G. Mathias, García de Jalón, Diego, Miller, Peter. "Changes in Channel Morphology and Floodplain in Clear Creek, California, in Response to Dam Constructions".  (PDF)
       

      Tema 2: Natural Flow regime characterization. Indicators of Hydrological Alteration.

      • Key lectures. (PDF)
      • MARTÍNEZ SANTA-MARÍA,C.. & FERNÁNDEZ YUSTE,J.A.(2008)
        "Índices de Alteración Hidrológica en Ríos (IAHRIS)" Software de libre difusión. Contenido: Aplicación; Manual de Usuario; Manual de Referencia Metodológica.
        ISBN: 978-84-692-4947-5 Fecha: 2008
        Editorial : Ministerio de Medio Ambiente
      • MARTÍNEZ SANTA-MARÍA,C &FERNÁNDEZ YUSTE,J.A., 2008
        "IAHRIS: a new software to evaluate hydrologic alteration"
        4 th ECCR International Conference on River Restoration
        Venecia (Italia)
       

      Tema 3: Riparian Systems and fluvial floodplains. Riparian vegetation: composition, structure and function.

      • García Amorena, Ignacio & Rubiales, Juan Manuel. "Riparian vegetation of the Iberian peninsula. Composition and structure". (PDF)
       

      Tema 4: Fluvial Ecology. Biological components. Physical requirements for the ecosystem functioning. Aquatic Habitat evaluation.

      • García de Jalón, Diego. "The River as ecosystem". (PDF)
       

      Tema 5: Optimization Tools. Multicriteria decision analysis.

      • Carlos Romero and Tahir Rehman (Firs edition 1989, second edition 2003)/./. /Multiple Criteria Analysis for Agricultural Decisions/ /./ Elsevier, Amsterdam, 186pp.
      • Enrique Ballestero and Carlos Romero (1998). /Multiple Criteria Decision Making and its Applications to Economic Problems/. Kluwer, Boston, 168pp.
      • Luis Díaz Balteiro, Carlos Romero (2008) Making Forerstry Decisions with Multiple Criteria: A Review and a Assessment. /Forest Ecology and Management/,/ /*255*:3222-3241 (PDF)
       

      Tema 6: Riparian Landscapes. Ecological Aesthetics. Artistic components in River restoration activities. Landscapes design. Feelings and perception on Rivers. Cultural hereditage.

      • Establishing Function, Process and Landscape Structure Objetives for Large Scale Ecosystem Restoration (PDF)
      • Planning for river restoration (PDF)
      • Cobb County Stream Buffer Revegetation Guidelines (PDF)
       

      Tema 7: GIS and Remote Sensing for Fluvial Sementation and Landscape Assesment.

      • Magdaleno, F., Fernández, J.A. 2010. HYDROMORPHOLOGICAL ALTERATION OF A LARGE MEDITERRANEAN RIVER: RELATIVE ROLE OF HIGH AND LOW FLOWS ON THE EVOLUTION OF RIPARIAN FORESTS AND CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY. River Research and Applications. In press - Available on-line.
      • Hughes, M.L., McDowell, P.F., Marcus, W.A. 2006. ACCURACY ASSESSMENT OF GEORECTIFIED AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEASURING LATERAL CHANNEL MOVEMENT IN A GIS. Geomorphology 74: 1-16.
      • Gurnell, A.M. 1997. Channel change on the River Dee Meanders, 1946–1992 from the analysis of air photographs. Regul. Rivers 13: 13–26.
      • Gurnell, A.M., Bickerton, M., Angold, P., Bell, D., Morrissey, I., Petts, G.E., Sadler, J. 1998. Morphological and ecological change on a meander bend: the role of hydrological processes and the application of GIS. Hydrol. Proc. 12: 981–993.
      • Mount, N.J., Louis, J., Teeuw, R.M., Zukowski, P.M., Stott, T. 2003.
        Estimation of error in bankfull width comparisons from temporally sequenced raw and corrected aerial photographs. Geomorphology 56: 65– 77.
      • Whited, D., Stanford, J.A., Kimball, J.S. 2002. Application of airborne multispectral digital imagery to quantify riverine habitats at different base flows. Regul. Rivers 18: 583–594.
      • Winterbottom, S.J. & Gilvear, D.J. 1997. Quantification of channel bed morphology in gravel-bed rivers using airborne multispectral imagery and aerial photography. Regul. Rivers 13: 489–500.
      • Winterbottom, S.J. & Gilvear, D.J. 2000. A GIS-based approach to mapping
        probabilities of river bank erosion: regulated River Tummel, Scotland. Regul. Rivers 16: 127–140. 
       

      Tema 8: Ecological Modelling.

      • Alonso, C., Gortázar, J. Baeza, D., García de Jalón, D. 2008. Dam function rules based on brown trout flow requirements: design of environmental flow regimes in regulated streams. Hydrobiologia, 609: 253-262. (PDF)
      • Alonso, C. García de Jalón, D. 2001. Bases para la ordenacion de la pesca en la cuenca del Alto Tormes (Avila). Limnetica, 20(2): 293-304. (PDF)
      • Alonso, C. Marchamalo, M. Aquatic Habitat Modelling. (PDF)
       

      Tema 11: River typology and Water Bodies characterization.

      • González del Tánago, Marta & García de Jalón, Diego. "Hierarchical Classification of Rivers: A proposal for eco-geomorphic characterization of Spanish rivers within the European Water Frame Directive". (PDF)
       

      Tema 12: Economic valuation of aquatic resources and environmental services.

      • R. Kerry Turner, Jouni Paavola, Philip Cooper, Stephen Farber, Valma Jessamy, Stavros Georgiou. "Vaulin nature: lessons learned and future research directions". (PDF)
      • Robert Costanza, Ralph d´Arge. Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farbeck, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karim Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O´Neil, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Paul Sutton & Marjan van den Belt. "The value of the world´s ecosystem services and natural capital". (PDF)
       

      Tema 13: Public participation. Participatory Decision Making: Methods and Applications.

      • Diaz-Balteiro, Luis, Gonzalez-Pachon, Jacinto and Romero, Carlos (2009). "Forest management with multiple criteria and multiple stakeholders: An application to two public forest in Spain", Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research,24:1,87-93. (PDF)
      • Nordström, Eva-Maria, Romero, Carlos, Eriksson, Ljusk Ola and Öhman, Karin. "Aggregation fo preferences in participatory forest planning with multiple criteria: an application to the urban forest in Lycksele, Sweden.", NRC Research Press Web site at cjfr.nrc.ca on 15 October 2009. (PDF)
      • González-Pachón, Jacinto & Romero, Carlos. "Inferring consensus weights from pairwise comparison matrices without suitable properties". (PDF)
      • Linares, Pedro & Romero, Carlos. "Aggregation of preferences in an environmental economics context: a goal-programming approach". (PDF)
      • Marchamalo, Miguel & Romero, Carlos. "Participatory decision-making in land use planning: An application in Costa Rica". (PDF)
       

      Tema 15: Fisheries Management for angling .

       

      Tema 16: Stream degradation: detecting causes. Pollution. Flow Regulation. Chanalization.

      • García de Jalón, Diego. "The Spanish Experience in Determining Minimum Flow Regimes

        in Regulated Streams". (PDF)

       

      Tema 17: Principles on River Restoration. Strategies and Technics on Restoration.

      • M.A. Palmer, E.S. Bernhardt, J.D. Allan, P.S. Lake, G. Alexander, S. Brooks, J. Carr, S. Clayton, C.N Dahm, J. Follstad Shah, D.L. Galat, S.G. Loss, P. Goodwin, D.D. Hart, B. Hassett, R. Jenkinson, G.M.Kondolf, R. Lave, J.L. Meyer, T.K. O´Donnell, L. Pagano $ E. Sudduth"Standards for ecologically successful river restoration". (PDF)
      • Craig Fishchenich & James V. Morrow Jr. "Reconnection of Floodplains with Incised Channels". (PDF) 
       

      Tema 18: River Restoration Projects: design, structure and contents. Restoration Plans. Economic analysis. Social and Enviroment impacts.

      • Public and private compromises in agricultural water management (PDF)
       

      Tema 19: Habitat Improvement technics. Fluvial Simulation Models.

      • Gortázar, J., Alonso-González, C. & García de Jalón D. "Do current deflectors actually improve habitat in channel-like natural streams? A two-dimensional approach". (PDF)
      • Marchamalo, Miguel, Bejarano, María Dolores, García de Jalón, Diego and Martínez Marín, Rubén. "Fish habitat characterization and quantification using LIDAR and conventional topographic information in river survey. (PDF)
      • García de Jalón, Diego and Gortázar, Javier. "Evaluation of instream habitat enhancement options using fish habitat simulations: case-studies in the river Pas (Spain)". (PDF)
       

      Tema 20: Urban Rivers Restoration.

      • Zhao, Y.W., Yang, Z.F., Xu, F. "Theoretical framework of the urban river restoration planning". (PDF)