针对国内河流功能受损严重而管理手段匮乏，在吸收西方发达国家河流管理经验的基础上，综合运用WSR方法论、系统论、水文水资源、自然地理、3S等理论与技术方法，以河流功能和谐发展为目标，从河流分类入手，定性定量分析每一种河流类型具有的功能潜力，提出了依据河流功能潜力与功能现状之间的差距来调控对功能使用的河流类型功能管理技术框架，并以南流江为例进行实证研究，为河流管理提供新的思路与工具。该框架以河流地貌为主要准则，耦合流域尺度河流地貌及水文,生物自然等过程以及人类活动对河流的影响，采用分层分类视角，在河段尺度，建立河流分类系统与方法，揭示河流结构特征差异；从河流功能的种类、大小、关系、状况等方面，研究每一种河流类型与其具有的功能之间的关系式，评估功能状况，预测功能演化轨迹；以每种河流类型的各功能潜力为蓝图，构建流域-河流功能愿景；以功能潜力与功能现状间差距定位管理策略，优化和调控河流管理活动。

For severely damaged river function and lack of management means, a technical framework is river function management is established by using hydrology and water resources, natural geography, coupling theory, ecology, 3S based on absorbing the western developed countries experiences about river management and taken Nanliu river as an example. The framework is a new tool and a idea for river management from river classification to qualitative and quantitative analysis potential function of river styles. It is aimed at the harmonious development of river function and the sustainable utilization of river function and coupled with geomorphology and hydrology, biological natural process in basin scale and the influence on the river with human activities, used the hierarchical classification perspective in the river scale to establish a system and a method of river classification in order to reveal the river characteristic difference; From styles，size, relationship and condition of river function, studies the corresponding relationship between each kind of river types and its functions, evaluates the condition of river functions, predicts evolution trajectory prediction; builds basin-river function vision to select management strategy such as protection, development and restoration based on the function potential of river styles to optimize and regulate management activities.