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Second Australian Stream Management Conference Proceedings, 8 -11 February 1999 Adelaide, SA

Edited by Ian Rutherfurd, Rebecca Bartley

Publication Type:

Other
This is a publication of the initial CRC for Catchment Hydrology

CRC Program:

River Restoration

Publication Keywords:

Streams (in Natural Channels)
Renovation
River Management
Hydrology
Ecological Management
Environmental Management
Riparian Vegetation
Rivers

Abstract / Summary:

Second Australian Stream Management Conference Proceedings: The Challenge of Rehabilitating Australia's Streams 8-11 Feb 1999, Adelaide South Australia

Foreward from the Editors

The central theme of this second Australian Stream Management Conferene is "The challenge of rehabilitating Australia's streams". So, what are some of these challenges? Possibly the most significant challenge is integrating the breadth of issues involved in rehabilitating streams. The diversity of these issues is clearly demonstrated by the variety of topics covered in the 130 or so papers within these proceedings. They range from market mechanisms for selling carbon credits, through to approaches to community involvement, and the hydraulics of rock chutes. How then do we integrate several scientific disciplines with the passion and knowledge of community groups? In addition, how do we meet the challenge of extending our stream rehabilitation efforts to long reaches of stream, and entire catchments?

These proceedings represent our current collective progress towards meeting the challenge of stream rehabilitation in Australia. We were pleased to see authors from outside of southeastern Australia contributing papers. It was also pleasing to see the integration of a number of papers dealing with the ecological, biological and evaluation aspects of stream rehabilitation projects. These issues provide new challenges for stream managers and we hope that the amount of work in these areas continues to expand.

But now to another challenge.....the production of these proceedings! Two reviewers, as well as our own editorial review team have examined each paper in these proceedings. This has been an ardous task for us, the reviewers, and for the authors. However, we believe that the review process has greatly improved the quality of the papers. Most authors accepted the suggestions made by reviewers, however some did not. Nevertheless, we sincerely thank the many people who reviewed papers for the conference.

We would also like to thank people who contributed directly to the production of these proceedings, particularly the dedicated team in the Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology: David Perry, Kathryn Jerie, Scott Wilkinson, Lindsay White and Bruce Abernethy who provided great support in producing this volume. Liz Butler (Teaching Services Unit, Monash University) created the design for the conference literature including the proceedings covers, and Monash Printing Services printed the proceedings professionally and most importantly, on time.

We trust the efforts of all these people has culminated in a reference that will assist you in better meeting the challenge of rehabilitating Australia's streams.

Ian Rutherfurd and Rebecca Bartley
Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology
Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Victoria
16 December 1998

This two volume set contains over 150 papers (750+pp). These proceedings are not available for dowloading. Printed copies can be obtained from the Centre Office.