Abstract
This editorial regards a Special Issue of Water on river training. It introduces five papers in a framework of history, fundamentals, case studies and future. Four papers result from decades of experience with innovation, planning, design and implementation of river training works on rivers in Colombia, the Rhine branches in the Netherlands and the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River in Bangladesh. A fifth paper reviews the state-of-the-art in predicting and influencing the formation and behavior of river bars. The editorial argues that the future lies in more flexible river training, using a mix of innovative permanent structures and recurrent interventions such as dredging, sediment nourishment, vegetation management and low-cost temporary structures.
Highlights
This Special Issue of Water presents and reviews the latest insights, innovations and experiences in river training
The first area regards the functioning of innovative river training structures, such as permeable groynes [1], submerged vanes [2]
The second area relates to the adverse effects of river training, often only becoming apparent and creating full awareness of their existence in the long term [4]
Summary
This Special Issue of Water presents and reviews the latest insights, innovations and experiences in river training. The fourth area focuses on case studies to evaluate the long-term performance and sustainability of river training projects implemented in the past [1,2,3,4] Most contributions to this Special Issue address several of the areas mentioned, so that they cannot be grouped strictly in distinct focus areas. This editorial, introduces them in a more general framework of history, fundamentals, case studies and an outlook on the future The rationale for this collection of papers is that, generally, experiences from river training and associated innovations are either poorly documented or presented in poorly accessible reports and publications, notwithstanding the availability of valuable books [6,7,8,9]. Crosato and Mosselman [5] review the state-of-the-art in predicting and influencing the formation and behavior of river bars
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