This important book brings together eighteen cutting-edge researchpapers first presented at the Second International Conference onBraided Rivers. It includes the latest research on the dynamics,deposits and ecology of these rivers.* Essential reading for geomorphologists, earth scientists,engineers and ecologists with a pure and applied interest in thestudy, modelling and management of braided rivers.

Acknowledgements.Braided Rivers: Where Have We Come in 10 Years? Progress andFuture Needs (Greg Sambrook Smith, Jim Best, Charlie Bristow andGeoff Petts).Depositional Models of Braided Rivers (John S. Bridge and Ian A.Lunt).A Sedimentological Model to Characterize Braided River Depositsfor Hydrogeological Applications (Peter Huggenberger and ChristianRegli).Scaling and Hierarchy in Braided Rivers and Their Deposits:Examples and Implications for Reservoir Modelling (Sean Kelly).Approaching the System-Scale Understanding of Braided RiverBehaviour (Stuart N. Lane).Cellular Modelling of Braided River Form and Process (A.P.Nicholas, R. Thomas and T.A. Quine).Numerical Modelling of Alternate Bars in Shallow Channels (A.Bernini, V. Caleffi and A. Valiani).Methods for Assessing Exploratory Computational Models ofBraided Rivers (Andrea B. Doeschl-Wilson, Peter E. Ashmore and MattDavison).Bed Load Transport in Braided Gravel-Bed Rivers (Christian Martiand Gian Reto Bezzola).Sediment Transport in a Microscale Braided Stream: From GrainSize to Reach Size (P. Meunier and F. Métivier).Morphological Analysis and Prediction of River Bifurcations(Guido Zolezzi, Walter Bertoldi, Marco Tubino).Braided River Management: From Assessment of River Behaviour toImproved Sustainable Development (H. Piégay, Gordon Grant,Futoshi Nakamura and Noel Trustrum).Bank Protection and River Training Along the BraidedBrahmaputra-Jamuna River, Bangladesh (Erik Mosselman).Morphological Response of the Brahmaputra-Padma-Lower MeghnaRiver System to the Assam Earthquake of 1950 (Maminul Haque Sarkerand Colin R. Thorne).Use of Remote-Sensing with Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Modelsto Assess Impacts of Hydro-Operations on a Large, Braided,Gravel-Bed River: Waitaki River, New Zealand (D. Murray Hicks,U.Shankar, M. J. Duncan, M. Rebuffé and J. Aberle).Effects of Human Impact on Braided River Morphology: ExamplesFrom Northern Italy (Nicola Surian).Ecology Of Braided Rivers (Klement Tockner, Achim Paetzold, UteKaraus, Cécile Claret and Jürg Zettel).Riparian Tree Establishment on Gravel Bars: Interactions BetweenPlant Growth Strategy and the Physical Environment (Robert A.Francis, Angela M. Gurnell, Geoffrey E. Petts and Peter J.Edwards).Index.