The Wetland Book, 1st ed. 2018
II: Distribution, Description, and Conservation

Coordinators: Finlayson C. Max, Milton G. Randy, Prentice R. Crawford, Davidson Nick C.

Language: English

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The Wetland Book is a comprehensive resource aimed at supporting the trans- and multidisciplinary research and practice which is inherent to this field. Aware both that wetlands research is on the rise and that researchers and students are often working or learning across several disciplines, The Wetland Book is a readily accessible online and print reference which will be the first port of call on key concepts in wetlands science and management. This easy-to-follow reference will allow multidisciplinary teams and transdisciplinary individuals to look up terms, access further details, read overviews on key issues and navigate to key articles selected by experts.

Introduction

Diversity of wetlands

Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Wetland Change

North America, Greenland and the Caribbean

Central and South America

Europe

Mediterranean Basin, Middle East  and West Asia

Africa

Northern and East Asia

Central and South Asia

South East Asia

Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands

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.

Randy Milton is the Manager for the Ecosystems and Habitats Program with Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources in Canada. Randy is an ecologist and Certified Wildlife Biologist® with 35 years’ experience in public and industry conservation and environmental management,

Practical reference work to support transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research Easy navigation to the most important articles With focus on distribution, description and conservation of wetlands Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras