wetland conservation Books

Papers presented at a symposium on the legal problems of the conservation of wetlands, jointly organized the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and the Groupe des zones humides of the Société française pour le droit de l’environnement. The meeting, attended by almost 100 participants representing 25 countries, was held in Lyon, France, in ...

By Earthprint Ltd

At the close of a 15-year regional programme to build institutional capacity for wetland resources management in West Africa, it was deemed essential to extract and review the lessons learned through this experience. This publication stems from the findings of a study carried out to analyse the experience as a whole and shed light on the ...

By International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

At the close of a 15-year regional programme to build institutional capacity for wetland resources management in West Africa, it was deemed essential to extract and review the lessons learned through this experience.This publication stems from the findings of a study carried out to analyse the experience as a whole and shed light on the successes, ...

By Earthprint Ltd

The eleven technical papers are the culmination of the first phase to review the natural resource status of these two areas, to design a fully integrated wetland management project, and to develop public awareness of the project’s approach to integrating wetlands conservation and ...

By Earthprint Ltd

This publication sets wetlands in their scientific, economic and legal context, before describing the main legal issues involved in implementing the Ramsar Convention. Parts 3-6 take an increasingly broad focus, dealing respectively with site-specific and bioregional approaches to wetland management, generally-applicable techniques for managing ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Wetlands in Danger provides the reader with a unique overview of the state of the world’s wetlands. The extensive atlas section, with maps showing their conservation status, is the result of a major mapping collaboration with WCMC and IUCN. Throughout the atlas, colourful feature spreads focus on wetland issues in each region. The book concludes ...

By Earthprint Ltd

There is today a growing awareness that many wetlands are more valuable in their natural, or only slightly modified state, than if drained, dyked or built upon. Past neglect of wetlands has meant that there is insufficient material available on policy guidance, planning techniques, or management methodologies for their conservation and sustainable ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Together with its companion Volume 190 Wetlands and Natural Resource Management, this volume gives a broad and well-integrated overview of recent major scientific results in wetland science and their applications in natural resource management issues.After an introduction into the field, 12 chapters contributed by internationally known experts ...

By Springer

ELI’s groundbreaking mitigation research continues with the completion of the 2005 Status Report on Compensatory Mitigation in the United States. The report, an update of the seminal 2001 Banks and Fees Study, is designed to determine the extent and nature of wetland mitigation banking and in-lieu fee mitigation activities in the nation. It ...

By Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Nineteen papers examine the importance of the region’s wetlands resources and the critical conservation issues ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Description Wetlands are among the most important and productive ecosystems on earth. Wetlands are valuable as sources, sinks and transformers of a multitude of chemical, biological and genetic materials. They stabilize water supplies, clean polluted waters, protect shorelines, and recharge groundwater aquifers. In recent years, the importance of ...

By Elsevier

This work deals with the distributions of wetlands, the description of wetland types, wetland classification systems, ecological characteristics (primary forcing functions which are responsible for the development and persistence of the wetlands), wetland use and conservation and recommendations on what should be done for each type of ...

By Springer

This book brings together, for the first time, information on various wetland classification systems and wetland inventories from around the world, outlining regional, national and local wetland classifications developed in Africa, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, India, South America and the USA. Oriented towards the conservation and ...

By Springer

Marine, coastal and wetland habitats are threatened, not only through exploitation, but also by the prospect of climate change – as ocean currents change course, sea levels rise, and rainfall patterns change. Even the once-common cod is now under threat from the combined effects of over-fishing and a dramatic change-induced decrease in the ...

By Springer

In 1994, IUCN launched Parks for life: Action for Protected Areas in Europe - a plan devised by IUCN with 200 partners to ensure an adequate, effective and well-managed network of protected areas in Europe. In November 1997, some 150 protected area experts from 34 countries met to review progress and chart a course for future work. Containing 11 ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Together with its companion Volume 191 Wetlands: Functioning, Biodiversity Conservation, and Restoration, this volume gives a broad and well-integrated overview of recent major scientific results in wetland science and their applications in natural resource management issues.After an introduction to the field, 13 chapters contributed by ...

By Springer

This volume highlights research on the construction of a vigorous and spatially-explicit model, which will describe the dynamics of wetland vegetation in relation to environmental variables, including hydrological regimes, sediment type, and nutrient availability. It features new information on ecological functions, environmental services, and ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Synthesizes Decades of Research on Vernal Pools Science. Pulling together information from a broad array of sources, Science and Conservation of Vernal Pools in Northeastern North America is a guide to the issues and solutions surrounding seasonal pools. Drawing on 15 years of experience, the editors have mined published literature, personal ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Zimbabwe’s wetlands are small, diverse and unique in nature but, until recently, in planning and development the components of these ecosystems have been treated as separate entities. These 18 papers highlight most forcefully the problems and ...

By Earthprint Ltd

The Workshop on Greek wetlands held in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1989, brought together 26 Greek and international experts and representatives of the EEC and Ramsar Convention, to review the problems facing Greek wetlands; to identify the priority problems; and recommend effective solutions. It covers 11 background papers and 16 case ...

By Earthprint Ltd