Riparian Areas - National Research Council a Division on Earth and Life Studies a Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology a Water Science and Technology Board a Committee on Riparian Zone Functioning and Strategies for Management

Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management.