Description
The Wetland Book, 2018
I: Structure and Function, Management, and Methods
Coordinators: Finlayson C. Max, Everard Mark, Irvine Kenneth, McInnes Robert J., Middleton Beth A., van Dam Anne A., Davidson Nick C.
Language: EnglishSubjects for The Wetland Book:
Publication date: 06-2018
· Paperback
Publication date: 06-2018
2238 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
Description
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Introduction
Wetland Succession
Landscape Ecology
Hydrology to Wetlands: Importance
Ecological Processes and Biogeochemistry
Biological Adaptations
Overview of Wetland Management
International framework for wetland conservation and wise use
Wetland Law and Policy
Management of provisioning services
Wetland delineation and classification
Earth Observation Methods for Wetlands
Wetland Monitoring and assessment
Environmental Flows
Wetland Management Planning
Restoration and Creation of WetlandsEnvironmental Impact Assessment for wetlands
Economic valuation of wetlands
Max Finlayson is an internationally renowned wetland ecologist with extensive experience internationally in water pollution, agricultural impacts, invasive species, climate change, and human well-being and wetlands. He has participated in global assessments such as those conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and the Global Environment Outlook 4 & 5 (UNEP). Since the early 1990s he has been a technical adviser to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and has written extensively on wetland ecology and management. He has also been actively involved in environmental NGOs and from 2002-07 was President of the governing council of global NGO Wetlands International. He has contributed to over 300 journal articles, reports, guidelines, proceedings and book chapters on wetland ecology and management. He has contributed to the development of concepts and methods for wetland inventory, assessment and monitoring, and undertaken many site-based assessments in many countries.
Nick Davidson was the Deputy Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands from 2000 to 2014, with overall responsibility for the Convention's global development and delivery of scientific, technical and policy guidance and advice and communications as the Convention Secretariat’s senior advisor on these matters. He has long-standing experience in, and a strong commitment to, environmental sustainability supported through the transfer of environmental science into policy-relevance and decision-making at national and international scales. Nick currently works as an independent expert consultant on wetland conservation and wise use.
Beth A. Middleton is a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center in Lafayette, USA. Her biogeographical research focuses on the impact of climate and landuse change on wetlands, particularly forested freshwater wetla