Introduction • Hydrodynamics of a floodplain recirculation zone investigated by field monitoring and numerical simulation • Flood behaviour of the Burdekin River, tropical North Queensland, Australia • Using fallout radionuclides in investigations of contemporary overbank sedimentation on the floodplains of British rivers • Source and fate of Chernobyl-derived radiocaesium on floodplains in Ukraine • Contribution of floodpain sequestration to the sediment budget of the Waipaoa river, New Zealand • Scientific and institutional constraints on the restoration of European floodplains • Identification of an ecologically-based floodway: the case of the Cosumnes river, California • The use of floodplain sedimentation measurements to evaluate the effects of river restoration works • Potential for floodplain rehabilitation based on historical maps and present day processes along the river Rhine, The Netherlands • Somerset levels and moors: buying off the presumptive rights of landholders to manage the land as they see fit • Variations in the quality of the thatching reed Phragmites australis from wetlands in East Anglia, England • Island topography mapping for the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River using remote sensing and GIS • Biotic response to late Holocene floodplain evolution in the River Irthing catchment, Cumbria • The contribution of a multiproxy approach in reconstructing floodplain development • A mechanism for the formation of overconsolidated horizons within estuarine floodplain alluvium: implications for the interpretation of Holocene sea-level curves • Historical background to floodplain morphology: examples from the East European Plain • Palaeochannels and groundwater storage on the North China Plain • Geochemical characteristics of overbank deposits and their potential for determining suspended sediment provenance; an example from the River Severn, UK • The CM pattern as a tool for the classification of alluvial suites and floodplains along the river continuum • Alluvial architecture of the Mississippi Valley: predictions using a 3D simulation model • Assessing flood duration gradients and fine scale environmental change on ancient floodplains • Floodplain palaeosols of the Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada: micromorphology, pedogenic processes and palaeoenvironmental implications • Nature and distribution of heavy metals in the Natal Group, South Africa • Index