Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
Work with the river as it is, not theoretical or digital representations of a river divorced from place-based understandings |
Geography and history matter. Theory is good, but reality is better |
Open-ended and flexible practices identify and look after key values of each and every river |
Some rivers are inherently messy (heterogeneous), others are not. Some rivers are leaky, others are not. Not all rivers have a channel |
A nested hierarchical framework of understanding derives and applies appropriately contextualised, cross-scalar, catchment-specific knowledge |
Know your catchment. The catchment is the fundamental geomorphic unit. Like the veins on a leaf, the catchment feeds the river. What happens upstream impacts downstream—it’s just a matter of time |
Different types of river at the reach scale comprise differing assemblages of geomorphic units (also called hydromorphic or morphologic units) |
Drainage network configuration and tributary-trunk stream interactions influence the pattern of geomorphic process zones, associated patterns of river types and (dis)connectivity relationships at the catchment scale |
Listen to the river and learn from it. Catchment-specific understandings give due regard for diversity, variability, process, pattern and evolutionary traits |