Practitioner Readiness: Developing Communities of River Practitioners (CoRPs) to Deliver Proactive Management Practices That Work With the River

Rapid expansion in the availability of data derived from ground, airborne, and satellite remote sensing, and numerical modeling applications is transforming river science and management practices. This digital revolution has the potential to catalyze the uptake of a riverscapes approach to deliver proactive and adaptive management practices that work with each and every river. Practitioner readiness to interpret landscapes from a geomorphological perspective is a key consideration in operationalizing a riverscapes approach. Making the best use of the best available understandings merges insights derived from analyzes of digital rivers with field‐based interpretations. We contend that Communities of River Practitioners (CoRPs) are required to address concerns for digital and knowledge readiness in the design and uptake of a geoethical approach to geomorphologically informed river management. CoRPs share and learn effectively, upscaling from local experiences to facilitate healthier rivers and an expanded, less expert‐dependent practitioner base in the design and implementation of geomorphologically informed river management practices.