This important book brings together eighteen cutting-edge research papers first presented at the Second International Conference on Braided 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 the study, modelling and management of braided rivers.

Gregory H. Sambrook Smith is a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham

James L. Best is a Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Leeds

Charlie S. Bristow is a Senior Lecturer of Sedimentology at the University College, London

Geoff E. Petts is a Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Birmingham